APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday January 4, 2021

Quote of the day:

"Netanyahu should look for voters in Hadera, not in Um al-Fahem."
--MK Mansour Abbas said about the Israeli Prime Minister's attempts to get Arabs to vote for him in the upcoming elections.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday January 3, 2021

You Must Be Kidding: 
The Israel Defense Forces said that “a violent disturbance developed involving about 150 Palestinians that included stone-throwing on a massive scale,” to which soldiers responded by “using crowd-dispersal methods and firing into the air.”
--A video of the incident in al-Rakiz village in the West Bank shows neither 150 people nor firing into the air or even at limbs. It shows three unarmed shepherds scuffling with armed soldiers as they try to wrest back their property – an electricity generator the size of a medium carton. The generator is a lifeline for the shepherds, whose village Israel won't allow to connect to the water or electricity supply. It is pulled back and forth between the soldiers and the shepherds. A photo shows an Israeli soldier aiming from point-blank range at Harun Abu Aram's head. The shot is heard in the video and then screams of women and Abu Aram is seen sprawled on the ground, he was shot in the throat. Another shot is heard. Then the soldiers left with the generator.**

“Sometimes the tanker arrives late or only half-full. By the time it returns full, school is over. So another day goes by without water, and I have to convince my young daughter that the next day she’ll be able to wash her hands there.”
—Adnan al-Nabari, chairman of the parents’ committee of the Israeli-Bedouin school in Tel Arad, which receives its water from tankers because the state refuses to lay a pipeline to hook up schools to the water grid.**

Quote of the day:
“When the IDF Spokesperson covers up for the army this way, it is an accessory to a crime. When the IDF Spokesperson whitewashes this way, soldiers know that nothing terrible happened. They can rely on the collaborators – most of the military reporters – not to make a fuss. After all, nothing happened. Nothing.”
--Gideon Levy writes in an Op-Ed after an Israeli soldier shot a Palestinian shepherd in the neck frompoint-blank range, while the shepherd tried to wrest a generator from the soldiers trying to confiscate it.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday December 30, 2020

Quote of the day:

"The main question that will guide [voters] is whether to vote for those who deceived them only a little and to distance those tainted by serious crimes; whether to grant another trial period to someone who promises that this time he will behave differently, who isn’t a habitual criminal and who promises that he won’t steal the votes of the electorate – or perhaps it’s better to hand the victory to a known criminal, who can’t surprise us.
--Journalist Zvi Bar'el in today's Haaretz+.

Breaking News:
Former Jewish American Spy Jonathan Pollard Lands in Israel
Jonathan Pollard, who served 35 years in prison, arrived on board a private jet and was greeted by PM Netanyahu at Ben-Gurion International Airport and received Israeli ID card. (Haaretz+ and Ynet)

APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday December 29, 2020 

Quote of the day:

“When people are killed in a vehicle that has a police escort, what is there left to say?"
--Arab-Israeli MK Ahmed Tibi (Joint List) said following the drive by shooting murder of an Arab-Israeli while was under police protection out of fear he would be murdered due to a feud between two families.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday December 28, 2020

You Must Be Kidding: 
 “We didn’t know they were Jews.”
— Said by one of the four Israeli police officers who were questioned as suspects after the car they were chasing in the West Bank flipped and a Jewish Israeli settler teen who was inside was killed. The other settlers who were in the car, all of whom were reportedly throwing stones at passing Palestinian cars, claimed the police detectives crashed into them deliberately from behind.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday December 24, 2020

Quote of the day:

“Everyone is liberal in his/her own eyes. "
-Dr. Gali Sambira, director at Living Together organization, said following the results of a poll that found that among secular Israelis, 53% are willing to live alongside ultra-Orthodox, but 69% said they would prefer Arab neighbors over them. Among religious Israelis, 96% said they would have no problem living alongside ultra-Orthodox neighbors, and only 32% would not object to living next to Arabs. Among ultra-Orthodox Israelis, only 12% reported that they would have no objections to living alongside Arabs.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday December 23, 2020

You Must Be Kidding: 
“The Knesset is the legislative branch and it also has the authority of the Constituent Assembly. The High Court draws its authority from the power of the Knesset, and not vice versa.”
—Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin (Likud) sparked a storm with a letter he wrote to the High Court ahead of its first hearing over whether the controversial Nation-State of the Jewish People Law is unconstitutional.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday December 22, 2020

You Must Be Kidding:
“In the center of the State of Israel.”
—Settler leader Yossi Dagan described the place where the Esther Horgen, an Israeli mother of six, was murdered Sunday night while out on a run near her settlement. Reporter Amira Hass writes that Esther Horgen was murdered in a West Bank enclave created by Israel’s separation barrier, where seven Palestinian villages have been penned inside, cut off from neighboring villages and the rest of their land, and the residents need an Israeli permit to live in their own homes and cannot leave at night because Israel won't allow it.*

Quote of the day:

“If the murderer is Palestinian, is there a connection between his deed and the cumulative cruelty of Israeli policy, which has stabbed and wounded him every day since he was born? If so, it’s a cruelty that millions of Palestinian experience personally from the cradle to the grave, one that stokes wrath and disgust in every one of them. But only very few of them vent their anger and hatred on an older woman running in the forest.”
— Amira Hass writes in an Op-Ed in today’s Haaretz.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday December 21, 2020 

Number of the day:

64.
-- Number of seats out of the Knesset's 120 of MKs in parties that have pledged not to join a government led by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu if elections were held now.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday December 20, 2020

Quote of the day:

"It's easier to buy an M-16 than jeans."
--An Arab-Israeli citizen wrote on social media networks after three Arab-Israeli relatives were shot dead in their town in two incidents within minutes of each other, as murders of Arab-Israelis hits a record high.*