APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, January 27, 2017
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Israel’s Public Security Minister decriminalized marijuana use, ahead of his interrogation today (his third), Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu charged in a Facebook post that politicians and media people are trying to bring him down, and the papers reviewed Donald Trump’s first week in office, which Yedioth wrote: “…he entered (office) like an elephant in a china shop.” And on the upcoming meeting between the US President and the Israeli Prime Minister, Maariv’s Ben Caspit wrote that “Donald Trump is supposed to be Netanyahu’s savior, the question is whether Sheldon Adelson will recommend to the President that he go out of his way for the Prime Minister.” Other's noted the irony of Netanyahu finally getting a settler-supportive US administration just as it appears that he will be forced to leave office. Haaretz's Yossi Verter wrote that "The assessment in the Israeli right wing that the Likud-Habayit Hayehudi government is nearing its end...The more intense the interrogations and the leaks become, and as the moment approaches when the Israel Police announce whether there is sufficient evidence to indict Netanyahu – the greater the pressure on him from the right will grow." The papers also reported that today, on International Holocaust Memorial Day, the Likud party is holding a fun weekend in Eilat at a hotel. Likud activists hung a banner from the windows, with the words quoting Netanyahu about the investigations against him: “There will be nothing, because there was nothing.”
Also, two Israelis were killed and 15 were injured overnight Thursday after an armored Egged bus traveling through the West Bank from Jerusalem to Ariel veered and plunged into a ravine. The hefty weight of the armored bus made it more difficult for the rescue teams to flip it over and extricate the passengers.
"If you honk, you're not about to run people down."
-- Said Yakub Abu al-Kiyan's brother-in-law, Salim, who heard Yakub’s horn honking nonstop during the incident that night in Um al-Hiran village, during which Border Police shot and killed Yakub while he drove his car, which ran over and killed one of the policemen. The horn may have sounded when he fell onto the steering wheel, wounded, or maybe he blew it deliberately, wrote Haaretz reporter Gideon Levy, who visited and interviewed his family.
-- Said Yakub Abu al-Kiyan's brother-in-law, Salim, who heard Yakub’s horn honking nonstop during the incident that night in Um al-Hiran village, during which Border Police shot and killed Yakub while he drove his car, which ran over and killed one of the policemen. The horn may have sounded when he fell onto the steering wheel, wounded, or maybe he blew it deliberately, wrote Haaretz reporter Gideon Levy, who visited and interviewed his family.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- The (Amona) deal is unraveling and the politicians fight over new alliances // Yossi Verter
- In Um al-Hiran, they mourned this week over a beloved teacher
- Trump in a collision course with the top US State Department officials; four have resigned
- Before print: Israeli blogger appealed to Belarus High Court over his extradition to Azerbaijan
- Erdan supports policy of fines instead of criminalization for marijuana users
- Senior member of Le Pen’s party tells Haaretz: We are no racist, we only want to preserve our identity, like Israel
- Court ruled that Kaisim (Ethiopian Jewish spiritual leaders) were discriminated against in their salaries, but the state shirks off correcting that correcting the injustice
- Russian Parliament approved reducing punishment for violence in families: “It’s a Russian tradition”
- Green revolution – Public Security Minister Erdan declared change to law enforcement policy against marijuana users
- Prime Minister will be interrogated today for third time
- Ehud Barak’s surprising offer to Stav Shafir – (Head the Labor party)
- “The doctor said: I have to kill the fetuses, they aren’t mine”
- “My victory” – Yedioth journalist Noah Kleiger, who survived the inferno of Auschwitz, will speak at the UN this evening in honor of Int’l Holocaust Day
- The 68th lamb – In honor of the appointment of MK Ayub Qara as a minister without portfolio, he plans to slaughter 68 sheep next week, “Like the number of years of the State of Israel”
- The marijuana revolution
- “They are trying to make a coup in an undemocratic way” – Prime Minister continues attack against those who he says are trying to dismiss him; Today Netanyahu will be interrogated for a third time
- Assassination in front of school students
- The story of Abed Ayash, who was assassinated this week in the parking lot of his home in Tel-Aviv
- Senior officer in IDF: Drop in number of attacks in Judea and Samaria
- President Trump – Op-Eds
- The feminine power: What is the likelihood that also in Israel women will lead a mass movement for change
- Not forgetting: The survivors who are battling against the ‘Yad VaShem’ memorial institution
- Investigation: What is the real reason that the US embassy does not move to Jerusalem? // Sara Leibovitz-Dar
- Yes to annexation: A journey in Maaleh Adumim a moment after Trump’s swearing-in
- Dispute: Trump will build a wall, Mexico is fuming
- The new marijuana policy in Israel
- Prime Minister accuses: They are trying to make a coup – Netanyahu is expected to be interrogated again today
- We must never forget – Int’l Holocaust Memorial Day
- Suspicion of (criminal) assassination near school in Kiryat Yam; One killed, two wounded in car explosion
- Kosher with the Education Ministry’s supervision: This is how religious content is entering all study subjects
- In war like in war: Also in Operation Protective Edge – the ‘in retrospect’ wisdom is not a replacement for decision making based on common sense
News Summary:
Israel’s Public Security Minister decriminalized marijuana use, ahead of his interrogation today (his third), Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu charged in a Facebook post that politicians and media people are trying to bring him down, and the papers reviewed Donald Trump’s first week in office, which Yedioth wrote: “…he entered (office) like an elephant in a china shop.” And on the upcoming meeting between the US President and the Israeli Prime Minister, Maariv’s Ben Caspit wrote that “Donald Trump is supposed to be Netanyahu’s savior, the question is whether Sheldon Adelson will recommend to the President that he go out of his way for the Prime Minister.” Other's noted the irony of Netanyahu finally getting a settler-supportive US administration just as it appears that he will be forced to leave office. Haaretz's Yossi Verter wrote that "The assessment in the Israeli right wing that the Likud-Habayit Hayehudi government is nearing its end...The more intense the interrogations and the leaks become, and as the moment approaches when the Israel Police announce whether there is sufficient evidence to indict Netanyahu – the greater the pressure on him from the right will grow." The papers also reported that today, on International Holocaust Memorial Day, the Likud party is holding a fun weekend in Eilat at a hotel. Likud activists hung a banner from the windows, with the words quoting Netanyahu about the investigations against him: “There will be nothing, because there was nothing.”
Also, two Israelis were killed and 15 were injured overnight Thursday after an armored Egged bus traveling through the West Bank from Jerusalem to Ariel veered and plunged into a ravine. The hefty weight of the armored bus made it more difficult for the rescue teams to flip it over and extricate the passengers.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.