APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday February 16, 2018
Question and Answer of the Day:
Maariv Poll: In your opinion, does Netanyahu's involvement in the
(corruption) investigations harm his ability to lead the country and deal with security
crises?
Public: 59% say it harms, 32% say it doesn't harm, 9% have no opinion.
Front Page:
Public: 59% say it harms, 32% say it doesn't harm, 9% have no opinion.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- (Large close-up photo of Netanyahu’s face across top of newspaper)
- In (Attorney General) Mendelblit’s head // Gidi Weitz
- Without a scratch, in the meantime // Yossi Verter
- The lies are being revealed // Guy Rolnik
- The danger in Case 2000 // Carolina Landsmann
- He will fall by himself // Ravit Hecht
- The deterrence doesn’t work // Sami Peretz
- (Israeli) Ruling that could affect thousands: Defection from Eritrean army could justify status of refugee
- (Minister) Kahlon will approve economic sanctions on Israeli pro-boycott activists
- Soldiers set a dog on Mabruk Jarar and detained him while still bleeding. And then he was simply released // Gideon Levy and Alex Levac
- The new religious education: More severe schools - and illegal ones
- Heads of criminal organizations in detention and the police are focusing on their children
- The shooter who killed 17 in Florida: Rejected student who was expelled from high school
- At age 29, the conductor Lahav Shani was chosen to replace Zubin Mehta. Interview
- “Not a cult, just an organization with secrets” - the Freemasons Israel chapter
Yedioth Ahronoth
- “It’s not easy, it’s not nice and it’s not pleasant, but there won’t be a problem to indict the Prime Minister” - Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit spoke for the first time about the police recommendation to indict Netanyahu for bribery
- Give and give // Nahum Barnea
- Indictment shminditement // Sima Kadhom
- The smell of the cigar // Meir Shalev
- Time to go out to the streets // (Author) Eshkol Nevo
- “We saw the murderer in front of us, the bullets whistled past us” - The Israeli high school students who survived the shooting in Florida
- Sharp drop in price of apartments
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links)
- “The investigations were conducted according to the book; I identify an attempt to instigate friction between the State Prosecutor and the police” - Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit spoke for the first time about the police recommendation to indict Netanyahu for bribery
- No way out // Ben Caspit
- Position paper // Kalman Libeskind
- Lone warrior // Avi Benayahu
- The putsch // Yoram Sheftel
- Milchan is not alone // Yehuda Sharoni
- Maariv Poll: Most of the public believes that the Netanyahu (corruption) affairs harm his ability to lead
- “Act of pure evil” - 17 killed murdered in shooting attack at high school in Florida
- Released for publication: Missiles from Syria landed in Mediterranean Sea
- 70 Years to Maariv - And this is just the beginning - “We promised to give you, the reader, a non-partisan, independent newspaper, of independent journalists” - Azriel Carlebach, February 15, 1948
- The Rubin legacy: The hidden talks of the reserve soldier who passed away
- The great rebellion: This is how Azriel Carlebach changed Hebrew journalism
Israel Hayom
- The Attorney General: “Only the evidence will speak”
- Exclusive: Beit Shaan: Independence and ostentatious” - (Top singers) to perform in Independence Day celebrations in the little city at a cost of 1.8 million shekels
- “Daddy, they’re shooting, there are dead people here” - Israelis in Florida are in shock from the massacre at the school
- The sentence of the murderer of the Solomon family in Halamish (settlement): 4 life sentences - and compensation
- As revealed in ‘Israel Hayom’: Israel will implement the Boycott Law against Amnesty
Fourth wing to be built at Terminal 3 of Ben-Gurion Airport
- Camerie actor Dan Shapira speaks about getting closer to G-d and secrets from his married life
- Between bombs and recommendations: The real twist in the police findings is the testimony of Lapid // Mati Tuchfeld
- Grandpa in the Nazi regime, honeymoon in Israel: Deputy Chairwoman of “Alternative for Germany” party speaks
News Summary:
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu flew to Germany yesterday to attend the Munich Security Conference leaving, at least physically, the hullabaloo in Israel following the police report this week recommending he be indicted for bribery. But the Israeli newspapers did not leave the subject, and Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit, who needs to decide whether to indict Netanyahu or not, spoke for the first time, shedding some light on the most-discussed topic: whether Netanyahu would and should remain Israel’s prime minister. Speaking at Tel Aviv University, the attorney general subtly accused Netanyahu and his supporters of trying to create friction between the State Prosecutor’s Office and the Israel Police and said that in fact, the two bodies were working “in full coordination” and “according to the book.” Mendelblit said he had no qualms about indicting anyone (many commentators have said it will be difficult for him) and he also pledged he would make the yes-or-no indictment decision “without unnecessary delay.”
A Maariv poll taken yesterday found that about half of the public believes that the prime minister should temporarily step down or simply resign, but that the coalition stays strong. If elections were held today, the Likud party and the five other parties of the coalition would win a combined 65 mandates – just one less than the 66 mandates the coalition currently holds. However, Netanyahu's status is weakened, with about 60 percent fearing that he will find it difficult to lead. Likud would remain the largest party with 28 seats – down 2 from the 30 it won in 2015. Habayit Hayehudi would increase to 11 from 8. MK Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party, which is in the opposition, would win 22 mandates, doubling its current 11. Lapid is a key witness in Case 1000 against Netanyahu.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu flew to Germany yesterday to attend the Munich Security Conference leaving, at least physically, the hullabaloo in Israel following the police report this week recommending he be indicted for bribery. But the Israeli newspapers did not leave the subject, and Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit, who needs to decide whether to indict Netanyahu or not, spoke for the first time, shedding some light on the most-discussed topic: whether Netanyahu would and should remain Israel’s prime minister. Speaking at Tel Aviv University, the attorney general subtly accused Netanyahu and his supporters of trying to create friction between the State Prosecutor’s Office and the Israel Police and said that in fact, the two bodies were working “in full coordination” and “according to the book.” Mendelblit said he had no qualms about indicting anyone (many commentators have said it will be difficult for him) and he also pledged he would make the yes-or-no indictment decision “without unnecessary delay.”
A Maariv poll taken yesterday found that about half of the public believes that the prime minister should temporarily step down or simply resign, but that the coalition stays strong. If elections were held today, the Likud party and the five other parties of the coalition would win a combined 65 mandates – just one less than the 66 mandates the coalition currently holds. However, Netanyahu's status is weakened, with about 60 percent fearing that he will find it difficult to lead. Likud would remain the largest party with 28 seats – down 2 from the 30 it won in 2015. Habayit Hayehudi would increase to 11 from 8. MK Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party, which is in the opposition, would win 22 mandates, doubling its current 11. Lapid is a key witness in Case 1000 against Netanyahu.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.