News Nosh 2.24.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday February 24, 2017
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
"We are not masochists and there is no reason we should keep doing that."
--Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon explained why it was refusing to give an entry visa to a lawyer from Human Rights Watch.


Front Page:
Haaretz
Yedioth Ahronoth
  • Assessment: Attorney General to reprimand Netanyahu and Yaalon in Operation Protective Edge report
  • The Military Prosecutor: “I revealed Elor Azariya’s lies”
  • Run with her – Among the thousands of people running in the Tel-Aviv marathon today is Keren Eyal, a mentally-challenged young woman who will soon be recruited to the IDF’s Oketz unit
  • Invalidating the elderly // Sima Kadmon
  • A state that is abusing // Meir Shalev
  • House of horrors // Igal Sarna
  • Police: Put Ari Harrow on trial
  • Coldplay on the way: Chris Martin is in Israel for private performance
Maariv This Weekend (Hebrew links only)
  • Likely: Former (Prime Minister’s) bureau chief to become state witness
  • Report: Attorney General suspects: ‘Israel Hayom’ newspaper – an illegal political contribution to Netanyahu
  • (Public Security Minister) Erdan: “If it turns out that [car ramming incident in Um al-Hiran] was not a terror attack – we need to apologize
  • Count to 10 // Ben Caspit
  • The Hurt Locker // Kalman Libeskind
  • Between the ruins – This is how the Iranians are winning in the battle for control of the Middle East // Jonathan Spyre in Mosul, Iraq
  • The desert foxes – the opposite look of Iran – What hides behind the moderate image of Saudi Arabia
  • The Egyptian paradox // Yossi Melman
  • Israel Air Force intercepted a Hamas drone
  • Bank of Israel acquired dollars in wake of dramatic weakening of currencies
  • What is preventing giving discounts to elderly who aren’t Holocaust survivors?
  • Who will put public pressure on the government in the name of the elderly? // Sarah Beck
  • The failed in battle in the Yom Kippur War that they didn’t want you to know about
  • His heart is in the East – the big change in Matan Vilnai’s life: China instead of politics
  • By Shlomit Kriegman: The secret book of the girl who was murdered in an attack
Israel Hayom
  • Erdan: “If it turns out there was no terror attack – we will apologize”
  • Police recommend – Indict Ari Harrow
  • Judge: Another year prison for (former chief rabbi) Metzger
  • This morning: tens of thousands to run in Tel-Aviv
  • Planted: Reza Kahlili tells how he spied for the Americans on the Revolutionary Guards in Iran
  • IDF presents: Official Experimental plan to put female combat soldiers in the Armored Corps


News Summary:
Friday’s Hebrew newspapers revealed the latest on the corruption investigations against and surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, that Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said he was ready to issue an apology to the bereaved Bedouin family if it turned out that he wrongly called their relative a terrorist, that convicted soldier Elor Azariya will appeal his lenient sentence and that the Israeli Air Force intercepted a Hamas drone headed toward Israel’s coast.
 
Police recommended indicting Netanyahu’s former bureau chief, Ari Harow on multiple counts of corruption and Maariv reported that the police may offer Harow to be a state witness in corruption cases against Netanyahu. Haaretz+ reported that Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit blocked the police from taking testimonies from former US secretary of state John Kerry and from the Peruvian ambassador in Case 1000, in which the Netanyahu family received expensive gifts, and Channel 2 News reported that in Case 2000, State Comptroller Yosef Shapira suspects that the free daily Israel Hayom constitutes a forbidden political donation to Netanyahu. Shapira has asked for all the material collected. Meanwhile, Netanyahu had the Diplomatic-Security Cabinet ministers sign a non-disclosure promise about the details of the meeting between Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump.
 
 
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.