APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday September 10, 2016
Quote of the day:
"There is limited remaining territory. Every time you take land for a settlement, less territory remains.
I'm not someone who bevies that advancing settlements is good for peace. But we are examining a number of
options."
--US President Donald Trump does a political U-turn in his first interview with an Israeli media outlet.**
--US President Donald Trump does a political U-turn in his first interview with an Israeli media outlet.**
Front Page:
Haaretz
- (Investigative) case of the gifts grows stronger; Netanyahu claims he would buy cigars with cash of families
- The (unusual) interests and alliances behind the security tension in the south // Amos Harel
- Attack in Petach Tikva: Five injured from shooting and stabbing, the terrorist was caught
- CEO of National Welfare Insurance: Without war on inequality, there will be a violent social protest
- Le Pen: “The Jews will need to give up their Israeli citizenship, or leave.” The race in France is at a climax
- A former alcoholic who promises to fight Trump is breathing on Merkel’s neck // Ofer Aderet
- The activists of the 2006 [anti-withdrawal from Gaza] struggle did not return to fight over Amona
- The battle over cannabis is moving to growth for personal use
- 60 people in the world remember every day of their lives fully
- This is how the directors of Teva Pharmaceuticals brought the medical company down into an abyss
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Netanyahu’s defense: “I paid money for cigars with cash that I received from relatives”
- Only the Attorney General is important (to Netanyahu right now) // Nahum Barnea
- Look for the woman // Sima Kadmon writes that Netanyahu points the blame at his wife
- Attack on the way to doing weekend shopping in Petach Tikva
- Time to put out (fires), time to plant – Firefighters in Haifa planted trees where the fires burned them
- Following Yedioth expose: Health Minister Leitzman demands urgent discussion about situation of elderly in nursing homes
- (MK Oren) Hazan and his bride – interview before the wedding
- The special brains – The cyberattack unit, the spearhead of the IDF Intel Unit, the Mossad and the Shin Bet, is revealed: A rare peek into the draft process of the ‘diamonds,’ the computer geniuses that go out to daring missions in enemy territory without getting out of their chairs
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Terror at the city outdoor market
- (Netanyahu) didn’t know // Ben Caspit
- The prophets of the next round (of a Gaza war) // Avi Benayahu writes that ministers’ job is to distance the next war and not guess when it will take place
- A war of choice // Alon Ben-David
- (The Palestinians who want Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria:) The path of peace // Sarah Beck
- The guardian of the kingdom // Adv. Yechiel Gotman
- The song of the seedling (for Tu B’Shvat holiday)
- (Tourists) went back to vacationing (in Eilat)
- The routes of the dispute – Growing protest against arrest of ultra-Orthodox youth who went AWOL from IDF
- The crashing of Teva Pharmaceuticals: What is the future of the great international medicine company?
- The water mark: The proposal of David Cherney, former senior CIA official, for the solution of the tunnels from the Gaza Strip
- Therapy through art: Winner of ‘Genesis Prize,’ Anish Kapoor, donated a million dollars to Syrian refugees
- The legend of Yair: The file of the leader of the Lechi organization was opened on the 75th anniversary of his murder
- In the name of the father: The daughter of David Perlov presents Ben-Gurion that you did not know
Israel Hayom
- “I won’t condemn Israel; it’s gone through enough” – US President Trump tells Israel Hayom correspondent, Boaz Bismuth, in his first interview to the Israeli press
- Attack in the Petach Tikva market: The terrorist shot and stabbed, citizens got control over him
- We followed 36 Jewish handicapped youth on their visit to Israel
News Summary:
The top stories in today’s Friday papers focused on the shooting attack at the Petach Tikvah market that injured five Israelis (but the lynch of an innocent Arab-Israeli by passers by was barely mentioned), another mass protest of ultra-Orthodox Jews against the arrest of a fellow youth who went AWOL, the latest revelations on the investigation into gifts Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu allegedly received and the government discussions ahead of his meeting with US President Donald Trump, the latter, who gave a very surprising interview to Israel Hayom.
While passers-by managed to stop a 19-year-old Palestinian man from the West Bank, after he shot and stabbed five people at the outdoor market in Petach Tikva, by hitting him with a sewing machine, others attacked an Arab-Israeli man who was doing his shopping, beating him until
Border Police stopped them and protected him. Maariv Online
also quoted one of the men who stopped the terrorist. "I saw the terrorist run, so I picked up a heavy stone and began to chase him…(I) saw him enter the sewing shop, where we neutralized him. At some point, some bleeding hearts started yelling for us to leave him alone, that we had hit him enough, then people from the street grabbed them and (started) beating them. There was a rage of emotions and everyone was very upset.”
**Ahead of Netanyahu’s first meeting with President Trump next Wednesday, the right-wing is pushing Netanyahu to drop the two-state goal. Haaretz+ reported that Education Minister and Habayit Hayehudi chairman Naftali Bennett is urging Netanyahu to present a policy that does not include the establishment of a Palestinian state and Maariv reported Thursday that pro-settlement Likud politicians are holding a special conference next week also aimed at causing the prime minister to give up the idea of two states for two peoples. On Sunday, the government cabinet will hold a meeting about what Netanyahu will say to Trump. The papers reported that in an attempt to make a good atmosphere, Trump has invited Netanyahu and his wife to stay at the official White House residence, unlike during the visits with former president Barack Obama, during which Netanyahu stayed in a hotel in town. However, Trump appears to have a surprise for Netanyahu. In his first interview with Israeli media, he backtracked on his positions on settlements and the US embassy move, which gave those opposing a Palestinian state so much hope. Trump also said: "No deal is a good deal if it isn’t good for all sides. We are currently in a process that has been going on for a long time. Decades. A lot of people think that it can't be done. And a lot of smart people around me claim that you can't reach an agreement. I don't agree. I think we can reach an agreement and that we need to reach an agreement." On the US embassy move he said: "I'm thinking about it. I'm learning the issue and we'll see what happens," he said. "It's not an easy decision. It's been discussed for so many years. No one wants to make this decision, and I'm thinking about it seriously."
The top stories in today’s Friday papers focused on the shooting attack at the Petach Tikvah market that injured five Israelis (but the lynch of an innocent Arab-Israeli by passers by was barely mentioned), another mass protest of ultra-Orthodox Jews against the arrest of a fellow youth who went AWOL, the latest revelations on the investigation into gifts Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu allegedly received and the government discussions ahead of his meeting with US President Donald Trump, the latter, who gave a very surprising interview to Israel Hayom.
While passers-by managed to stop a 19-year-old Palestinian man from the West Bank, after he shot and stabbed five people at the outdoor market in Petach Tikva, by hitting him with a sewing machine, others attacked an Arab-Israeli man who was doing his shopping, beating him until
Border Police stopped them and protected him. Maariv Online
also quoted one of the men who stopped the terrorist. "I saw the terrorist run, so I picked up a heavy stone and began to chase him…(I) saw him enter the sewing shop, where we neutralized him. At some point, some bleeding hearts started yelling for us to leave him alone, that we had hit him enough, then people from the street grabbed them and (started) beating them. There was a rage of emotions and everyone was very upset.”
**Ahead of Netanyahu’s first meeting with President Trump next Wednesday, the right-wing is pushing Netanyahu to drop the two-state goal. Haaretz+ reported that Education Minister and Habayit Hayehudi chairman Naftali Bennett is urging Netanyahu to present a policy that does not include the establishment of a Palestinian state and Maariv reported Thursday that pro-settlement Likud politicians are holding a special conference next week also aimed at causing the prime minister to give up the idea of two states for two peoples. On Sunday, the government cabinet will hold a meeting about what Netanyahu will say to Trump. The papers reported that in an attempt to make a good atmosphere, Trump has invited Netanyahu and his wife to stay at the official White House residence, unlike during the visits with former president Barack Obama, during which Netanyahu stayed in a hotel in town. However, Trump appears to have a surprise for Netanyahu. In his first interview with Israeli media, he backtracked on his positions on settlements and the US embassy move, which gave those opposing a Palestinian state so much hope. Trump also said: "No deal is a good deal if it isn’t good for all sides. We are currently in a process that has been going on for a long time. Decades. A lot of people think that it can't be done. And a lot of smart people around me claim that you can't reach an agreement. I don't agree. I think we can reach an agreement and that we need to reach an agreement." On the US embassy move he said: "I'm thinking about it. I'm learning the issue and we'll see what happens," he said. "It's not an easy decision. It's been discussed for so many years. No one wants to make this decision, and I'm thinking about it seriously."
(Excerpts printed in Haaretz+.)
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.