APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday February 3, 2017
You Must Be Kidding:
One drawing in the Amona synagogue, where settler youth barricaded themselves, parodied the Israel Police logo, but featured a swastika and changed the name to “Ishmael Police,” a reference to the biblical character, the son of the patriarch Abraham, traditionally believed to be the ancestor of Arabs.
One drawing in the Amona synagogue, where settler youth barricaded themselves, parodied the Israel Police logo, but featured a swastika and changed the name to “Ishmael Police,” a reference to the biblical character, the son of the patriarch Abraham, traditionally believed to be the ancestor of Arabs.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- With masked faces and without a court order, Police raid homes in E. Jerusalem nightly
- Eviction of Amona completed; Dozens injured in clashes
- Court criticized light punishment for (IDF general) Buchris, but approved the plea bargain
- When the advisor of Trump believes in Armageddon, the lawlessness in the White House is dangerous // Chemi Shalev
- Tel-Aviv and Bat-Yam moving towards declaring union within two months
- The quiet after – Between commemoration and the erosion of deterrence against Hezbollah: 20 years since the Helicopter Disaster // Amos Harel and Noa Spiegel
- The problems are floating – The desalination eased the water crisis in Israel, but it has a price
- Going to the grave – Number of foreigners who choose to be buried in Israel almost doubled in a decade
- Trump, erections and the advantages of anti-Semitism – an interview with Guy Toulouse
- How the Hollywood producer (Arnon Milchan) turned into an ator in Netanyahu’s bad film // Shuki Sadeh and Hagai Amit
- Idiocy is a truer existence than wisdom: a portrait of the artist Moshe Gershoni
Yedioth Ahronoth
- The eviction battle
- The lords of the land // Sima Kadmon
- A terrible stain // Shlomo Pyotrkovsky
- It was their house // Oded Shalom
- Children on the frontlines // Eti Abramov
- Ashkenazi Jews get cancer four times more Jews born in Africa and Asia
- Trump threatens Iran
- Really, Bibi, all this for cigars // Hanoch Daum writes the Prime Minister
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- Amona, the end
- The lords of the land // Ben Caspit
- Coalition of tears // Kalman Libeskind
- Who would have believed // Udi Segal
- The Israeli spirit // Alon Ben-David
- Trump to Israel: Stop declaring settlement construction - Despite his declarations before elections, the White House confirmed that the President is committed to the Two State solution and he is not happy with Israel’s plans to build thousands of housing units over the Green Line (JPost)
- The Lebanese connection – This is how a deal between Israel and the German conglomerate led to the firing of the Lebanese Defense Minister, Samir Mukbal
- Exclusive: Top secret – Brig. Gen. A., Commander of IDF’s Special Operations unit, tells in his first and unprecedented interview about the activities of our forces in the enemy’s home front // Ben Caspit
- Three wounded in car-ramming attack near Adam settlement
- Rivlin’s plan to narrow the socio-economic gaps
- The skies are open – Astronaut teacher Richard Arnold: “The children of Israel have a place in space”
- The bad movie: Two weeks was enough for Trump to shake America // Ron Miburg
Israel Hayom
- Police Commissioner: “We will bring the lawbreakers to justice” – Amona eviction ended in violent clashes between officers and those who barricaded themselves in the synagogue; Wall to wall condemnations
- Delusional and wild group that doesn’t represent the settlers // Haim Shine
- Trump to Iran: “All options are on the table”; Sanctions expected to be imposed
- “Together we will build and win” (Daughter of settler woman, Daphna Meir, who was murdered by Palestinian teen, accepted marriage proposal)
- Economy Minister: “They won’t get something at our expense”
- (IDF general) Buchris’ sentence: Lowering of rank and suspended prison sentence as part of a plea bargain
- Medical Association recommends to IDF: Lower soldiers’ profile if they smoke
- Was the eviction at Amona a pinpoint incident – or a seminal event? // Yair Altman, Mati Tuchfeld, Dror Eydar, Emily Amrousi
News Summary:
The main story of the Friday Hebrew papers was the violence by hardcore ‘hilltop youth’ who fought police against being evicted from Amona outpost and injured 17 policemen on Thursday with acid, metal rods, chairs, rocks and bottles, which even right-wing politicians condemned.Yedioth noted that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was silent about the violence and that Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan was the only one among right-wing ministers to condemn the violence in real time, calling the settlers, "Hooligans who debase Judaism." Right-wing leaders claimed that while Amona was lost, the settlers won a bigger victory because many more settlement homes will now be built. Maariv scooped the other Hebrew papers when it published a Jerusalem Post article (same owner) in which a White House official told the JPost that Israel should stop announcing the approval of new settlement homes.
In other news, a Palestinian woman rammed into a police car in front of a settlement last night out of "personal” motives. [Unclear what that means, but it sounds different from “nationalist.” –OH]
The main story of the Friday Hebrew papers was the violence by hardcore ‘hilltop youth’ who fought police against being evicted from Amona outpost and injured 17 policemen on Thursday with acid, metal rods, chairs, rocks and bottles, which even right-wing politicians condemned.Yedioth noted that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was silent about the violence and that Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan was the only one among right-wing ministers to condemn the violence in real time, calling the settlers, "Hooligans who debase Judaism." Right-wing leaders claimed that while Amona was lost, the settlers won a bigger victory because many more settlement homes will now be built. Maariv scooped the other Hebrew papers when it published a Jerusalem Post article (same owner) in which a White House official told the JPost that Israel should stop announcing the approval of new settlement homes.
In other news, a Palestinian woman rammed into a police car in front of a settlement last night out of "personal” motives. [Unclear what that means, but it sounds different from “nationalist.” –OH]
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.