APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 08, 2014
NOTE: No News Nosh Thursday.
NOTE: No News Nosh Thursday.
Number of the day:
$860,000,000.
-The drop in Israeli weapons exports last year. **
-The drop in Israeli weapons exports last year. **
Front Page News:
Haaretz
- Second incident in one week in the north: Two soldiers injured from Hezbollah roadside bomb
- **Sharp rise in Israeli arms exports to Africa
- Looking for guilty - Police ignores limitations of searches without a warrant and dozens of indictments are cancelled
- Victims twice - Through an article that is meant to help the battle against pimping, the legal authorities are picking on the prostitutes
- Netanyahu takes (Interior Minister) Saar's side: Ordered to formulate new bill that will allow holding asylum seekers at Holot (detention) facility
- Government approved budget despite sharp criticism of Governor of Bank of Israel, Flug
- Two Israelis who were rafting in Peru are missing
- 1935 travel guide gives tips for a 5,000 km car journey between Berlin and Palestina
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Nasrallah raises his head - Hezbollah set off roadside bombs on Har Dov and announced: We are responsible
- Playing with fire // Alex Fishman
- Crowned - 40,000 people came to the tribute for Arik Einstein
- Fear for the lives of two Israelis in Peru
- Why we pay more - How is it that prices in Israel are much higher than in the world?
- Berliners, let us be // Raanan Shaked
- Israelis, be proud of them // Andreas Michaelis, German ambassador to Israel
- Night cabinet meeting to approve budget despite sharp criticism of Bank of Israel
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links)
- Hezbollah opens a front - Tension rises in the north: two soldiers wounded from roadside bomb in Har Dov, terror organization took responsibility
- No more extensions: European dairy product boycott will begin at end of December
- Fear: Rafting in Peru ended in death
- The double tragedy of the Kahlon family - son wounded in car accident hours before commemoration for father who was killed in Operation Protective Edge
- 30,000 people at tribute performance for Arik Einstein
- Nasrallah is provoking Israel - Serious incident: 2 soldiers wounded from Hezbollah roadside bomb
- The economic sanction was cancelled: Tax benefits for periphery will remain
- Sukkot for happiness
- We are all in favor of lower prices, but that is not an excuse to emigrate // Haim Shine
- Judge Cohen questioned for 11 hours
- Peru: Heavy fear for fate of two Israelis missing in rafting accident
- Go out to nature: Suggestions for trips during Sukkot holiday
News Summary:
Hezbollah took responsibility for exploding road mines that injured two Israeli soldiers yesterday at Har Dov [an area where the border is not agreed upon - OH] and the papers bemoaned the end of Israeli deterrence in the north, while two Israelis went missing after a rafting accident in Peru and the government cabinet approved the 2015 budget, despite the opposition of the governor of the Bank of Israel making top stories in today's Hebrew papers on Erev Sukkot holiday. Meanwhile, the anger that arose over the Facebook post earlier this week on the cost of a chocolate pudding in Berlin compared to in Israel remains a top story with Finance Minister Yair Lapid now promising that supervision of prices will be expanded.
Hezbollah took responsibility for exploding road mines that injured two Israeli soldiers yesterday at Har Dov [an area where the border is not agreed upon - OH] and the papers bemoaned the end of Israeli deterrence in the north, while two Israelis went missing after a rafting accident in Peru and the government cabinet approved the 2015 budget, despite the opposition of the governor of the Bank of Israel making top stories in today's Hebrew papers on Erev Sukkot holiday. Meanwhile, the anger that arose over the Facebook post earlier this week on the cost of a chocolate pudding in Berlin compared to in Israel remains a top story with Finance Minister Yair Lapid now promising that supervision of prices will be expanded.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.