APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday, August 24, 2018

You Must Be Kidding: 
Shin Bet agent at Israel crossing in the Arava desert: “Is your wife pregnant?
Nadim Sarrouh, a 34-year-old German citizen, who was returning to Israel from Jordan with his wife and her family, who are Israeli citizens: “No.”
Shin Bet agent: “Okay, so she is fine, waiting in the heat.”
--Nadim Sarrouh told Haaretz+ he is accustomed to short detentions and questioning by Israeli authorities at the border, but he has never been treated and interrogated as he was on August 11, 2018.

Front Page:

Haaretz

• In a hasty procedure and despite warnings from professionals: This is how the faculty of medicine was established in Ariel (University in the West Bank)
• “It comes to you when you’re alone with yourself” - IDF snipers who shot thousands of civilians on the Gaza border in the last few months are not receiving psychotherapy
• Despite (Transportation Minister) Katz’s declaration, the plan to establish a (pedestrian) bridge in Tel-Aviv cannot be postponed
• Netanyahu in Lithuania: The contacts with Baltic states and eastern Europe are meant to change from inside the approach of the European Union towards Israel // Noa Landau
• Shin Bet to a German citizen on entry to Israel: “Your blood is not German, it’s Palestinian”
• The most expansive study till now: Use of alcohol in any amount is dangerous to one’s health
• Avnery planted doubts in us // Tom Segev
• Without a lifeguard or popsicles: A journey along the unregulated beaches
• Female heroes and arch-villains: The sentence of Alon Kastiel (for sex crimes) as it has yet to be told
• How did a product to make soda become a business worth $3.2 billion
• The Mossad changed his face, and that’s only the good news // Chaim Levinson
• A profile of the strong woman in the Muslim Brotherhood movement

Yedioth Ahronoth  

• Getting in trouble (Photo of Trump)
• Israel will be hurt // Yoaz Hendel writes that “in the reality that was created, the fall of President Trump will harm Israel strategically. All our eggs are in one basket”
• The straw that broke // Orly Azoulay writes that the Holocaust-survivor father of Trump’s lawyer was horrified that Trump didn’t condemn the neo-Nazi demonstrations last summer and that pushed Michael Cohen to testify against Trump
• Expose - Palestinian security forces thwarted a major attack in Israel
• The driver who ran over the youth: “I finished off a bottle of vodka, I’m so high” - According to indictment, driver insisted on driving, despite his friends’ warnings and tried to hide the evidence after he killed the youth, Eylon Shalev-Amsalem
• Hezbollah in the crosshairs - Golani Brigade marks its 70th anniversary this week and finished an exercise simulating combat against Hezbollah in dense natural and built up areas
• The war of the female citizens - Special investigation: The violence towards women who run in local elections

Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)

• The Western Nile Fever fear - Two people infected with the virus died, another 68 are ill, 14 in critical condition
• Trump returns fire - “If I’m impeached - the economies will collapse”
• On the second anniversary since his death: The Headquarters for Nuclear Research in Dimona will be named after its founder, Shimon Peres
• The bridge crisis - 49% of the public supports working on Yehudit Bridge on Sabbath; Only 36% support the decision of the minister to postpone it
• Bubbles: The insights from SodaStream’s billion-dollar deal
• Scorched earth: Ron Kaufman on a journey to the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip
• Historical investigation: The mystery over the murder of (Swedish) Count Bernadotte
• What is left of the dream: A decade since the death of the peace activist A. B. Natan
• The back gate: The real face of Uri Avnery // Natan Zahavi

Israel Hayom

• The big airlines are leaving Teheran - American pressure on Iran’s economy is doing its thing
• “I finished off a bottle of vodka, the person is dying here” - Indictment submitted against the driver who ran over the youth, Eylon Shalev-Amsalem
• The people of Israel are flying - Yesterday was particularly heavy traffic at Ben-Gurion Airport: 105,000 people passed through in 610 international flights
• For the sake of Zion - Wave the flag of the nation // Dr. Miriam Adelson
• Confidant of the White House: “Trump will present a limited peace plan at the UN”
• Western Nile Fever isn’t stopping: Number of dead from the virus rose to two
• Druze meals, Slichot tours and the Rashbi cave: This is the time to visit Pekiin
• And this is your certificate: Horse training, firefighting, wine making and Persian language: There are youth who learn this from their matriculation exams
• New hope - Two and a half years after their daughter died in a car accident, Efrat and Yoram Nachmias are hugging a baby boy
• Hello First Grade - Nir Barekat, Miki Gabrielov, Shaykeh Levy and others on their first days in school
• Maya Katz from Herzliya, the young female candidate for mayor of the city, prefers career over being in a relationship
• “The military regime in Judea and Samaria was paradise”: (Right-wing religious politician) Moshe Feiglin misses the days before the Oslo Accord
• Horror in Ukraine: Looting mass graves of Jews in order to find valuable objects

 

News Summary:
Western Nile Fever virus kills two Israelis, US President Donald Trump gets in deeper trouble and threatens that world markets will collapse if he is impeached, (but Israel Hayom ignores that and focuses on his Mideast peace plan), an indictment against a drunk driver who killed a youth reveals he tried to hide the evidence, and the battle over constructing a pedestrian bridge on Sabbath in Tel-Aviv continues making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
 

Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.