APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday November 4, 2016
Quote of the day:
"You have placed a gun on the table."
--Chief Justice Miriam Naor struck back at Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked's attempt to curb the power of the High Court.**
You Must Be Kidding:
The IDF prevented US diplomats from visiting Palestinian villagers in the Jordan Valley, claiming the area was a closed army training zone. But the site is home to two Israeli settlements, one of which is an illegal outpost still under construction.
--Chief Justice Miriam Naor struck back at Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked's attempt to curb the power of the High Court.**
You Must Be Kidding:
The IDF prevented US diplomats from visiting Palestinian villagers in the Jordan Valley, claiming the area was a closed army training zone. But the site is home to two Israeli settlements, one of which is an illegal outpost still under construction.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Sharp dispute over appointment of justices to High Court: Chief Justice Naor refuses to work with Justice Minister Shaked
- She played into Shaked’s hands // Yossi Verter
- The minister broke the rules // Ido Baum
- 4 days to US elections
- Chief of Staff has medicine for State Comptroller report: Aviv Kochavi to be appointed deputy chief of staff
- 240 refugees drowned to death across from Libyan coast
- State deepening collaboration with Kahanist NGO
- Netanyahu’s obsession is on the way to taking over the media // Gidi Weitz and Natan Tucker
- She lives well with her conscience, thank you very much – An interview with (investigative TV journalist) Ilana Dayan
- Is it even possible to speak about anti-Semitism without talking about the occupation? // Caroline Landsmann
- Who invented nationalism?
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Dividing America – 4 days to elections
- The next Chief of Staff (photo of Gen. Aviv Kochavi) – Marked // Yossi Yehoshua
- Legal dispute – the woman with the gun // Tova Tzimuki
- Field trial // Ben-Dror Yemini
- Public Broadcaster? Broadcasting Authority? “Both of them can be closed” – Netanyahu suggested
- KGB documents – This is how Russia funded Palestinian terror, including weapons for hijacking plane to Entebbe
- Not being silenced // Special interview with American journalist Danielle Brinn, who claimed that Ari Shavit sexually harassed her
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- American circus – US elections in four more days
- The justices affair: Bulldozer on the High Court (Photo of Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked) // Adv. Yehiel Gottman; The last enclave // Prof. Arieh Eldad
- Netanyahu: Cancel the Public Broadcasting Corp and close down the Broadcasting Authority
- How did the State Comptroller turn into the fear of the political system // Yehuda Sharoni
- “Because of you, my house is falling apart, you need to change” – Prime Minister’s birthday party started with screams by Sarah Netanyahu at Prime Minister’s Office legal advisor, Adv. Shlomit Farago-Barnea
- Deputy Chief of Staff: Aviv Kochavi – will replace Gen. Yair Golan
- 21 years since the murder: Five short pictures in memory of Yitzhak Rabin
- Broken heart: Jews of Aleppo return to their beloved and destroyed city
- The good guys: Who are the people who are doing reserve duty in 2016?
- In payments: Cleaning the dust from the hits of (Jewish-Egyptian singer) Filfel Al-Masri
Israel Hayom
- The new General Staff
- Trump-Clinton? Trump-Obama!
- The ‘gun on the table’ storm - Unprecedented dispute between Chief Justice Naor and Justice Minister Shaked
- The majority also has rights // Haim Shine
- Shaked and her soldier // Mordechai Gilat
- Open end: Even in the few days till the presidential elections, anything can happen // Boaz Bismuth
- Supervision over the banks considering: Cancel the agreement with the female employee allegedly harassed by Zion Keinan
News Summary:
**Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked’s desire to prevent High Court Justice’s from having veto power over appointments of new justices, in order to keep the judiciary out of the system of checks and balances, caused Israel’s Chief Justice Miriam Naor to freeze all contacts with Shaked (Naor called the bill ‘a gun on the table’), and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman made new appointments in the IDF, including Gen. Aviv Kochavi as Deputy Chief of Staff, whom many now view as the next chief of staff – making top stories in today’s Friday Hebrew newspapers.
No longer making the front page, a young Palestinian man was shot dead after allegedly trying to stab soldiers at a hitchhiking post outside the Ofra settlement.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.