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News Nosh 09.08.14

by APN 09/08/14

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APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday September 08, 2014

Number of the day:

30.
Percentage of Israelis who would seriously consider leaving Israel if they could, according to a poll commissioned by Israel's Channel 2.**

News Nosh 09.07.14

by APN 09/07/14

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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.**

News Nosh 09.05.14

by APN 09/05/14

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APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday September 05, 2014

Quote of the day:

“(It) drove the Americans nuts.”

--A senior Israeli official speaks of the US reaction to Israel's announcement to expropriate 4000 dunams of West Bank land.**

News Nosh 09.04.14

by APN 09/04/14

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APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday September 04, 2014

Number of the day:

18.

--Percentage of the 4000 dunams Israel appropriated that are west of the separation barrier, which means its meant to link Gush Etzion with Israel, said Peace Now.**

News Nosh 09.03.14

by APN 09/03/14

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APN's daily news review from Israel

Wednesday September 03, 2014

Number of the day:

61.
--Percentage of Palestinians who would choose former Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh as prime minister, almost double what Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received.**

News Nosh 09.02.14

by APN 09/02/14

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APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday September 02, 2014

Note: In the translation yesterday of Peace Now director Yariv Oppenheimer's Op-Ed in Maariv, it should have read that 4000 dunams (998 acres) of West Bank land were appropriated for Israeli construction.

Quote of the day:

“There’s a clash between the theory in the books and what the children see on the ground...They see that Jews get democracy and they get only the theory.”
--High School Principal Fawzi Abu Ghosh at Amal high school in East Jerusalem, where Mohammed Abu Khdeir studied, had to cancel the annual trip to concentration camps in Poland.**

News Nosh 09.01.14

by APN 09/01/14

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday September 01, 2014

Quote of the day:

"How will Abbas explain to his people the disregard and aggression of the Netanyahu government towards him?"
--Peace Now director Yariv Oppenheimer slams the Israeli decision to appropriate almost 1000 acres of land in the West Bank.**

News Nosh 08.31.14

by APN 08/31/14

APN's daily news review from Israel

Sunday August 31, 2014

Quote of the day:

“(We discussed) what to do when students say ‘Death to Arabs’– which they do frequently – and we gave each other the benefit of our experience."
--Rani Hazon Weiss, a teacher at the Givat Gonen High School in Jerusalem, met with other teachers to talk about how to battle anti-Arab racism in Jewish Israeli schools, post Gaza war.**