APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday September 07, 2014
Quote of the day:
"It’s interesting to wonder how much thought (Vogue Editor Emily) Wintour and Co. gave to Hadid’s
family background when they mulled placing her in Bercu’s shoes."
--Haaretz's Shachar Atwan asks whether the Israel-Palestine conflict is being fought on the cover of Vogue after a Palestinian-American model was chosen to replicate a cover by an Israeli model.**
--Haaretz's Shachar Atwan asks whether the Israel-Palestine conflict is being fought on the cover of Vogue after a Palestinian-American model was chosen to replicate a cover by an Israeli model.**
Front Page News:
Haaretz
- After 5 months: Ukrainians and rebels signed ceasefire agreement
- Foreign Ministry gave cabinet plan for deploying international force in Gaza Strip
- Mashaal to Abbas: Demands to participate in political process
- Bibitours: Too many open questions // Ido Baum
- The affair was covered up: "I offered someone from the law enforcement establishment additional material on the 'Bibitours' (affair). He was not interested" // Raviv Drucker
- State to return monies of widows who paid for civilian burial
Yedioth Ahronoth
- US and Iran in military coordination - Bitter enemies cooperating against Islamic State
- Terrorist from Brussels beat the captive Israeli journalist
- Life destroyed - Toddler forgotten in car dies
- Birthday of the Golani Brigades battalion commander who was seriously injured - on grass of Sheba Hospital
- 3 stars without meat - One of France's greatest chefs, Alain Ducasse, surrendered to vegetarianism
- After short attempt in politics: Noam Shalit is selling apartments
- Big mouth - It's impossible to part from Joan Rivers without remembering her most provocative quotes
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links)
- Americans taking off their gloves: "We will fight the Islamic State like Al-Qaeda"
- The beginning of the awakening // Yossi Melman
- Report: Mashaal announced to Abu Mazen that he agrees to a state on the '67 borders
- Contractors changed their opinion: Now they support the 0% VAT program (for first time homebuyers)
- Tragedy in Yehud: Baby died after being forgotten in burning car
- Rain is coming
Israel Hayom
- Islamic State is already in Sinai
- Murderer of Israelis in Brussels - Islamic State activist
- Little Yoav was forgotten in burningcar 40 minutes - and died
- Michelle Obama and the war on hummous
- Hummous: A little fattening, but healthy and tasty // Thabet Abu Ghosh of Caravan resident (in Abu Ghosh)
- Abu Mazen threatens suspending reconciliation agreement with Hamas
- Family of Avital Rokach: "The murderer (her ex-husband) threatened he would kill her, and was released"
- Today: An asteroid, half the size of an Olympic pool, will pass by Earth
News Summary:
The US takes off its gloves in the fight against the Islamic State, pairing up with Iran as the threat reaches Sinai making the Islamic State the top story of today's Hebrew newspapers along with the death of a toddler forgotten in a blazing hot car. The announcement by Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Hamas agrees to a Palestinian state on the '67 borders was front page news in Maariv and Haaretz [despite the fact that Mashaal has said this a number of times in the past, as Maariv noted. -OH] Mashaal also demanded to be involved in the diplomatic discussions. Maariv wrote that the Israeli Prime Minister's Office had no comment about the report. Yedioth and Israel Hayom did not make any mention of Mashaal's statements. However, both reported that Abbas told reporters in Egypt that he threatened to end the unity government with Hamas.
Meanwhile, Haaretz+ reported that while unnamed senior Palestinian officials said that the US called Abbas’ diplomatic plan, in which he demands a clear timetable for the Israeli army’s withdrawal from the West Bank, 'unilateral,’ Abbas told Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog that the US did not reject the plan, but rather asked for time to study the plan and form a position. Haaretz+ also reported that Israel's Foreign Ministry proposes the deploying of an international force in Gaza, favoring EU troops.
The US takes off its gloves in the fight against the Islamic State, pairing up with Iran as the threat reaches Sinai making the Islamic State the top story of today's Hebrew newspapers along with the death of a toddler forgotten in a blazing hot car. The announcement by Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Hamas agrees to a Palestinian state on the '67 borders was front page news in Maariv and Haaretz [despite the fact that Mashaal has said this a number of times in the past, as Maariv noted. -OH] Mashaal also demanded to be involved in the diplomatic discussions. Maariv wrote that the Israeli Prime Minister's Office had no comment about the report. Yedioth and Israel Hayom did not make any mention of Mashaal's statements. However, both reported that Abbas told reporters in Egypt that he threatened to end the unity government with Hamas.
Meanwhile, Haaretz+ reported that while unnamed senior Palestinian officials said that the US called Abbas’ diplomatic plan, in which he demands a clear timetable for the Israeli army’s withdrawal from the West Bank, 'unilateral,’ Abbas told Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog that the US did not reject the plan, but rather asked for time to study the plan and form a position. Haaretz+ also reported that Israel's Foreign Ministry proposes the deploying of an international force in Gaza, favoring EU troops.
Quick Hits:
- Israel issues tenders for 283 homes in West Bank settlement - After Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1980s, Land Authority announces new homes in settlement of Elkana. (Agencies, Ynet)
- Israel refuses to allow Palestinians to build on own land near Yatta - Israeli authorities cite a previous order from 1997 to confiscate the land for "military purposes," although the area is still open. (Maan)
- Speaker of the Knesset in favor of annexation of Gush Etzion: "Don't fear" - Yuli Edelstein dedicated a neighborhood of Har Bracha settlement and said that he hopes will get opportunity to do that also in Gvaot settlement, on the 4000 dunams in Gush Etzion that the Prime Minister decided to annex last week. (Maariv)
- Palestinians march across West Bank against Israeli occupation - Hundreds of Palestinians took part in marches across the West Bank on Friday calling for an end to the Israeli occupation and in protest against the continued confiscation of Palestinian land and construction of Jewish settlements. (Maan)
- WATCH: Suspects flee scene of price tag attack - Four (Jewish Israeli) teenagers caught on camera after allegedly setting fire to café in Palestinian town in Hebron. (Ynet)
- Reports: Israeli intelligence device explodes in Lebanon - Lebanese media reports listening device blown up near Sidon killing Hezbollah militant; Israeli UAV possibly hit device after being found. (Ynet)
- Finance Ministry struggling with killer math problem after Defense demands - Finance Ministry can't make the math add up if Defense Ministry gets the record $22 billion it wants. (Haaretz+)
- Aharonovitch: Lieberman will be Israel's next prime minister - Although Netanyahu already announced his intentions to run for prime minister in next elections, one of his senior ministers has already identified a successor. (Ynet)
- Israeli military court indicts Palestinian who criticized IDF commander on Facebook - Zahada Suheib of Hebron is charged with publishing a message with diplomatic significance, threatening a soldier, insulting a soldier, attempted persuasion to throw an incendiary projectile and calling for holding a march without a permit. (Haaretz+)
- Meretz chairwoman to AG: Why are wartime death threats against me not investigated? Zahava Gal-On complains of selective enforcement of the law, noting a Palestinian was arrested for Facebook incitement against an army commander, but no one was arrested for inciting against her. (Haaretz+)
- Israeli soldiers set fire to olive trees in Hebron - Israeli soldiers deployed in the area pushed a burning tire into an area of olive trees, causing severe damage to Palestinian-owned olive trees near the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba in Hebron. (Maan)
- Eight (rocket) shelters set up at nurseries of Bedouin villages in Negev - The move, an initiative of AJEEC - NISPED, was launched after a resident of the communities was killed by a missile in Operation Protective Edge and others were injured. The hope is that the move will spur the government to give protection to the unrecognized Bedouin villages. (Maariv)
- Palestinian lawyers to attend Cairo conference on Israeli war crimes - A delegation of 15 Palestinian lawyers will join in a conference in Cairo next week to discuss atrocities during Israel's recent offensive on the Gaza Strip. (Maan)
- Israeli lawmakers see farce in internal probe of Gaza war - Critics charge that the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee’s special panel is a sham. (Haaretz+)
- Bedouin mother becomes cleaner so her two sons can study medicine - For years, Nuwal Shibli was a housewife raising 7 children. But when two of them began studying medicine, she began working as a cleaner to pay for it. Now she's celebrating the acceptance of her eldest son to Puriah Hospital. (Yedioth, p. 24)
- Bank of Israel says Q3 slowdown the biggest since 2009 - While figures before Operation Protective Edge pointed to a fruitful third quarter, business sectors took a hit when the security situation worsened • Real estate and construction sectors are still slow, while home prices remain high and demand is down. (Israel Hayom)
- Palestinian man succumbs to wounds sustained in Gaza assault - Mahmoud al-Sheikh Eid al-Zamili was seriously injured after Israeli forces targeted Rafah with heavy artillery shelling in early August. (Maan)
- David Makovsky quits U.S. State Department’s Mideast peace team - Makovsky's departure is the latest signal that the Obama administration is retreating from its intensive efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. (Haaretz+)
- PM thanks Christian group for support during Gaza campaign - International Christian Embassy Jerusalem "has been a source of strength and encouragement for the citizens of Israel and the soldiers defending them," PM Benjamin Netanyahu says. ICEJ raised money, organized activities for residents of southern Israel. (Israel Hayom)
- **Is the Israel-Palestine conflict being fought on the cover of Vogue? - When American Vogue relaunched its website, it chose U.S.-Palestinian model Gigi Hadid to recreate a classic cover shot of Israeli Michaela Bercu. Should we call the fashion police? (Haaretz+)
- Former Republican presidential hopeful plans pro-Israel rally in DC - Mike Huckabee organizes Oct. 5 rally in Washington, D.C. Tens of thousands of people expected to attend in show of support for Israel. "One thing we hope Americans understand is that the enemies of Israel are the enemies of the United States," he says. (Israel Hayom)
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.