APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, March 16, 2018
You Must Be Kidding:
After 3,000 years in which the Ein Hanya spring was open to and frequented by local Jews, Christians and Muslims, the Jerusalem Municipality is planning to set up a roadblock nearby which will prevent thousands of residents from the adjacent Palestinian villages of al-Walaja and Battir and environs from reaching the site, writes Naama Riba in Haaretz+.
Front Page:
After 3,000 years in which the Ein Hanya spring was open to and frequented by local Jews, Christians and Muslims, the Jerusalem Municipality is planning to set up a roadblock nearby which will prevent thousands of residents from the adjacent Palestinian villages of al-Walaja and Battir and environs from reaching the site, writes Naama Riba in Haaretz+.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- (Justice Minister) Shaked appoints people who identify with Habayit Hayehudi party to senior posts in the Justice Ministry
- No elections - Day before they breathed a sigh of relief following Netanyahu’s retreat from early elections, the members of the coalition considered using the doomsday weapon: Calling on Attorney General to speed up the ruling in his (corruption) investigations
- Nir Hefetz and (Shaul) Elovitch covered their tracks. Hefetz to Communications Ministry director, who was battling Bezeq: If you want to stay, act nicely
- (Chief of Staff) Eisenkot wants to dismantle the Nahal Brigade groups
- US puts sanctions on Russia for the cyberattack meant to harm infrastructure
- Miriam Peretz, who lost two of her sons, will receive Israel Prize for her contribution to ‘Jewish-Israeli Spirit’
- High Court temporarily froze deportation of asylum seekers
- Police to probe sex video that soccer players filmed
- The Jewish victims of expulsion in Poland are concerned about the present
- Peres’ shadow man describes a great diplomat and a small politician
- Lapid puts himself forward for Prime Minister in the “Journey to the Future”
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Miriam Peretz and David Levy: Israel Prize laureates for lifetime achievement
- Exclusive - The prison diary: Ehud Olmert: From the Prime Minister’s Office to a conviction of bribery and imprisonment
- Exclusive - The #1 female pilot - After the storm around her appointment as the first female commander of a squadron, Major Tuli speaks
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- The rebellion of the neighborhoods - Residents of south Tel-Aviv declared they will battle against the High Court ruling to stop expulsion of infiltrators to a third country
- Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement: David Levy and Miriam Peretz
- Rehab program: How they are trying to improve the jail conditions
- The Israeli network: The public opinion leaders who are battling against de-legitimization
- Bread, Labor: Avi Gabbay battles against the polls and his fellow members of the Zionist Camp
- The national singer: The little secret behind the big success of Omer Adam
- “At no point did the navy request nine submarines” - Maj. Gen. G., head of submarines, in rare interview on work with the Germans after Case 3000 blew up and on Egypt getting equipped with strategic war vessels
- Likely: Netanyahu will be questioned next week
- A train stopped at the station // Ben Caspit writes that after the coalition partners worked together to prevent Netanyahu from going to early elections, it’s unclear how what they will do in the next test, such as the investigations against Netanyahu
- A new mandate // Caroline Glick writes that Netanyahu against won the trust of the public - without needing elections
- Kahlon’s arrangement // Yehuda Sharoni writes that Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon made the passing of the 2019 budget necessary or he would bring down the government - and he succeeded
Israel Hayom
- The glory of the State of Israel - National pride: Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement to Miriam Peretz and David Levy
- Olmert’s chutzpah // Haim Shine calls Olmert chutzpan for criticizing Netanyahu for hedonism, Ehud Barak for the Shalit deal, or Shula Zaken for revealing his corruption in his autobiography
- “Russia is endangering all of us” - The poisoning of the spy: Britain got the support of the US, Germany and France. Israel joined without mentioning Russia
- High Court prohibited the deportation of the infiltrators
- Internal Likud poll: Party leads with 39 mandates, United Torah Judaism jumps to 9, (Lieberman’s) Yisrael Beiteinu gets just 5
- The sex video scandal of Beitar Jerusalem soccer team: Police will probe criminal aspects
- Commandos Sayeret Matkal and Shaldag are revealed
- Ended (at least for now): The threat of elections was removed and the right-wing coalition returned to normal
News Summary:
David Levy, an immigrant from Morocco who rose from construction work to becoming Israel’s foreign minister, yet was a target of condescending jokes for his lack of English, won the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement, and Miriam Peretz, two of whose sons were killed while in the army, won the Israel Prize for Strengthening the Jewish-Israeli Spirit, the High Court temporarily froze Israel’s deportation of African asylum seekers and Israel made a careful criticism of the poisoning in Britain of the Russian double spy by not naming Russia, making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
David Levy, an immigrant from Morocco who rose from construction work to becoming Israel’s foreign minister, yet was a target of condescending jokes for his lack of English, won the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement, and Miriam Peretz, two of whose sons were killed while in the army, won the Israel Prize for Strengthening the Jewish-Israeli Spirit, the High Court temporarily froze Israel’s deportation of African asylum seekers and Israel made a careful criticism of the poisoning in Britain of the Russian double spy by not naming Russia, making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.