APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday June 30, 2017
Quote of the day:
“I saw places where the word ‘terrorists’ was written on photographs taken by Palestinians. But after
all, they do not call themselves as such. It’s part of terminological camouflaging, which subordinated their
creative work to the colonial process in which the occupier controls the material that’s
captured.”
--Dr. Rona Sela, an Israeli curator and art historian, exposed some 38,000 films, 2.7 million photographs, 96,000 audio recordings and 46,000 maps and aerial photos taken by Palestinians that had been taken and kept in the IDF Archive since 1948, by order of Israel’s first prime minister and defense minister, David Ben-Gurion. More Palestinian materials exist in a collection – whose exact size and full details remain unknown – of “war booty films” seized by the IDF from Palestinian archives in raids over the years, though primarily in the 1982 Lebanon War. The material presents an alternative to the Zionist history that denied the Palestinians’ existence here, said Sela.
--Dr. Rona Sela, an Israeli curator and art historian, exposed some 38,000 films, 2.7 million photographs, 96,000 audio recordings and 46,000 maps and aerial photos taken by Palestinians that had been taken and kept in the IDF Archive since 1948, by order of Israel’s first prime minister and defense minister, David Ben-Gurion. More Palestinian materials exist in a collection – whose exact size and full details remain unknown – of “war booty films” seized by the IDF from Palestinian archives in raids over the years, though primarily in the 1982 Lebanon War. The material presents an alternative to the Zionist history that denied the Palestinians’ existence here, said Sela.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Evidence strengthens in two cases against Netanyahu
- The rift with US Judaism: Netanyahu didn’t even have the courage to stand before the cameras // Yossi Verter; Rabbis from the 19th century are dictating policy in Israel // Chemi Shalev; Government decisions put AIPAC between a rock and a hard place // Amir Tibon; The ultra-Orthodox groups that pushed for canceling the Wailing Wall plan
- Olmert to be released from prison on Sunday
- Israel stopping visits of families of Hamas prisoners from Gaza
- The missing fallen soldier who was left in Gaza: Testimonies reveal what happened to the body of a Palmach fighter who was killed in 1948
Yedioth Ahronoth
- In their name – Oren Almog, 24, who lost five family members in the attack on Maksim restaurant 14 years ago, will call from the podium of the UN Security Council to stop paying terrorists and their families
- Judge who ruled to release Olmert from prison early put question mark on continued investigation over Olmert’s book // Nahum Barnea
- “I’m going home” – Olmert goes ome on Sunday after one year and four months in jail
- Likely solution to crisis over conversion law
- Head in the skies – 174 graduates of IAF pilot’s course
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- (Olmert) on the way home
- Rebellion of the ambassadors: Following the conversion law affair and the cancellation of the Wailing Wall plan: Israeli diplomats in North America are refusing the Prime Minister’s dictation to blame the Reform and Conservative movements for the deterioration in relations with Israel
- Lieberman: “Some of the rabbis are acting as if their job is to create problems instead of solving them”
- Touching the skies – 174 cadets graduated IAF pilot’s course yesterday
- This time, the ring is for them – Elementary school and kindergarten and preschool children go on summer holiday as of today
- Hadassah Hospital crisis: “No department will be made (for the cancer patients) at Shaarei Tzedeq Hospital”
- Economic threat – Dollar dropped to under 3.5 shekels. What can be done to save the economy? // Yehuda Sharoni
- Price of gasoline to drop 23 agorot to 5.76 shekels a liter
- The deal man: Is Jason Greenblat the envoy that will bring peace to the region
- The last interview: Before he died, Mordechai Tzafuri revealed all the secrets
- Reunion performance of Guns and Roses comes to Israel
Israel Hayom
- Next Head of National Security Council: M. from the Shin Bet
- The prosecutor won’t appeal: Olmert goes home
- The gate of freedom: Elementary school and kindergarten and preschool children go on summer holiday as of today
News Summary:
Convicted former prime minister Ehud Olmert will leave prison Sunday after being granted early release, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with AIPAC officials to find a solution to the crisis over the cancelled egalitarian prayer space at the Wailing Wall (Maariv reported that Netanyahu also told Israeli diplomats in North America to blame the Reform and Conservative movements for the deterioration of relations between Israel and the American Jewry, but the Israeli diplomats refused to cooperate - and even the Trump administration is looking for a solution, Maariv reported) and Israeli elementary school children begin summer vacation today making today’s top stories in the Hebrew newspapers. Also in the news, Israel canceled family visits for Hamas prisoners from Gaza, which Hamas called a ‘declaration of war against the prisoners.’
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.