APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday December 9, 2016
Quote of the day:
"Amona's eviction is underway! Everyone, come to Amona now! By all estimates, the eviction is set for
Saturday night. Roads will be blocked -- come early. Spread the word, because you don't destroy a Jewish
community."
--A text message sent Thursday night to tens of thousands of Israelis by Amona outpost campaign activists, who fear police will evict them before the December 25th deadline.*
--A text message sent Thursday night to tens of thousands of Israelis by Amona outpost campaign activists, who fear police will evict them before the December 25th deadline.*
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Bennett forming rules for political remarks of lecturers in academia
- Education Ministry to prohibit schools from inviting ‘Breaking the Silence’
- Golden Boy – Amona crisis is actually brining Netanyahu closer to Bennett; In the meantime, the Zionist Camp succeeded in losing also to the (golden Netanyahu) statue // Yossi Verter
- The Buchris and Givati (sex crimes) scandals mark a turning point in the IDF // Amos Harel
- Aleppo returned to Assad’s control – How will the re-conquering of Aleppo affect the continuation of the campaign against ISIS? // Zvi Bar’el
- “(Former minister) Faina’s hotel in the US: $5,600”; The document that is getting senior members of Yisrael Beiteinu party in trouble
- The limitations to blood donations from Ethiopian-Israelis will be dropped
- ¼ page ad: Prize in the name of Yeshayahu Leibowitz – Invitation to recommend candidates
Yedioth Ahronoth
- ‘Adir’ (incredible) power: “Congratulations on your new F-35,” said the one of the US pilots flying the combat jet to Israel
- Fear in Amona: “The eviction is near”
- Leak in the submarine – Company from which Israel acquired submarine announced: We were a target of a cyberattack
- We are allowed // Nahum Barnea writes about the hypocrisy of Israel’s biggest propaganda campaign to boycott Iran when it was buying submarines from a company with Iranian shares
- Out of the loop // Alex Fishman writes that these are not glorious days for the Defense Ministry. Two defense ministers and three directors learning from Yedioth newspaper that on the board of directors of the submarine making company sits a representative who was sent by the Iranian government
Maariv Weekend
- In Amona they are preparing: “Day of getting the order”
- The younger generation of Amona is starting to come to terms with the expected eviction: “We hope we will succeed in returning”
- The writing on the wall // Ben Caspit
- The lie of the Regulation (bill) // Prof. Arieh Eldad
- Adir (incredible) power: On Monday the first two F-35s will land in Israel
- Prosecution: Continues to oppose early release of Moshe Katsav
- The former MK suspected of receiving sex for bribes: Amnon Cohen (Shas)
- Diary of a terror attack: Chilling filming of the terrifying moments from all directions
- This is how we won: Avner Gadasi returns to the first days of the Mizrachi revolution
Israel Hayom
- “Also in the ‘Incredible,’ the pilot will win” – Gen. Yotam, the commander of the F-35 squadron
- Happiness: People born in Ethiopia can donate blood
- Practicing the evacuation of Amona (outpost)
- Investigation against Adv. Uri Korev, suspected of sex crimes, was renewed
News Summary:
*Settlers and police prepared in opposing ways for the imminent evacuation of Amona
settlement, the German shipyard building the Israeli submarines was targeted in a 'massive' cyber
attack, and F-35 combat jets made their way to Israel making top news in today’s Hebrew
newspapers, alongside the latest list of men accused of sex crimes (former Shas MK Amnon Cohen, prosecutor
Adv. Uri Korev, and the rabbi of a religious girls’ school).
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.