APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday December 26, 2014
Number of the day:
1,850
--Amount of new homes over the Green Line given approval to be built near Arnona neighborhood of Jerusalem.**
Front Page:
Haaretz
- 11-year-old seriously wounded from firebomb near Maaleh Shomron; her father was lightly wounded
- (Habayit Hayehudi) Corruption scandal
- wakes up sleep election campaign // Yossi Verter
- The thread that led to the investigation of the money trails: Danny Eilon
- More religious-Zionists: 22% of Jews in Israel identify with this sector
- The anti-women message of the right-wing in Israel is competing with the Tea party // Chemi Shalev
- Now in Gaza, Israel is a supporting actor // Amos Harel
- In the West Bank they are learning how to export through a siege // Amira Hass
- Haaretz investigation: (Former defense minister and chief of staff) Mofaz and an advisor of (Defense Minister) Yaalon aided in enormous deal initiated by (Israeli) fraudsters in the West Bank
- High Court ordered state to destroy Amuna (settlement outpost) within two years
- Incitement crosses borders and social workers fear violence
- The man who manufactures the material from which the future is made
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Ayala is fighting for her life – Attack in Shomron
- Police trying to draft Misezhnikov as a state witness – Corruption investigation
- They drowned in the Dead Sea // Nahum Barnea
- Elections blow // Sima Kadmon
- The melody will return // Yoaz Hendel
- The strong woman // Nehama Dweik
- Elections 2015: Shas angry: Netanyahu helping Eli Yishai
- Secretly planted in (anti-Arab) Lehava organization
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Maariv Weekend poll: Security gauge: Because of escalation, support for Netanyahu rises (to 38% from 35%)
- Likely: Lieberman left for Europe in attempt to advance his ‘regional arrangement’ idea – Foreign Minister seen in Paris hotel, popular among Arabs from the Emirates and Saudi Arabia
- Corruptions scandal: State witness recorded conversations with suspects
- Every third child in Israel – poor: Council for the Child reports that 800,000 minors in Israel live under poverty line; Also, rise in bullying on Internet, in sexual abuse of children and in use of drugs by youth
- Touching the skies – Israel Air Force Pilot’s course #169 ended yesterday
- Mazoz report: Profile of a spiritual leader battling Shas
- Signal from Gaza: What is really happening in the Strip since Operation Protective Edge
- On way to (Likud) primaries: Minister Silvan Shalom fighting for every vote
Israel Hayom
- Firebomb hit 11-year-old Ayala – Attack in Samaria (West Bank): Fear for life of Ayala Shapira
- “Police succeeded in drafting at least one state witness” (in country's biggest corruption scandal involving members of Yisrael Beiteinu)
- Israel Beiteinu: Business first // Dan Margalit
- Feeling in the clouds – Air Force pilot’s course completed
- Agreement: Minimum wage to rise – in legislation
- Gantz dismissed Givati battalion commander (suspected of sexual harassment)
- My journey – Coalition chairman Zeev Elkin parts from a story term
- New life – After her daughter was injured in an attack, Adva Biton becomes a mother again
- War film - The Jewish actor who angered the Koreans speaks // Rolling Stone Magazine
- With his girlfriend, baby and with explosives in the trunk of the car: The explosives expert of the criminal world was arrested
- News for drivers: Gasoline prices to drop significantly in January
News
Summary:
The wounding of an 11-year-old Israeli girl, who was burned on her face and 50% of her body
in a firebomb attack on her father’s car in the West Bank and the latest details on what is reportedly the biggest corruption scandal revealed in the history of Israel were the top stories
in today’s Hebrew newspapers. What wasn’t mentioned, except in Haaretz+, was that the Israeli police retracted its statement that it did not shoot sponge-tipped bullets at
stone-throwing Palestinians in the Issawiya neighborhood of Jerusalem, which apparently wounded in the face a 5-year-old Palestinian boy standing outside his home.
**On the subject of settlements, there were confusing reports. Some said that Israel gave preliminary approval Thursday for the construction of 513 new homes on West Bank
land that was annexed to Jerusalem: 243 in Ramot and another 270 in Har Homa. But other reports said
that on Wednesday Israel gave 307 permits for new homes in Ramot and 73 in Har Homa, as well as approval for a
plan in advanced stages for 1,850 homes over the Green Line in Jerusalem near the Arnona
neighborhood. Meanwhile, the High Court ruled that the state must destroy Amona outpost, the West Bank's largest illegal outpost, within two
years.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.