APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday January 03, 2014

Numbers of the day:

82.5 and 65.5
Percentage of Jewish Israeli respondents of poll that believes in teaching openness and critical thinking in schools and percentage that believes that the schools must "teach Jewish and Zionist values without taking a critical stance," respectively. **

APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday January 02, 2014

Quote of the day:

"If Israel wants to redraw the map we are in favor of returning to the 1947 partition lines."
--Hadash party MK Afu Agbaria responds to the Maariv/NRG report that Israel suggested transferring Israeli Arabs to live under Palestinian Authority sovereignty.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Wednesday January 01, 2014

Quote of the day:

"Regards to John Kerry"
--Graffiti spray-painted on Palestinian home in village near Ramallah, where three cars were also torched, takes jab at visiting US Secretary of State.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday December 31, 2013

Quote of the day:

"The boycott is moving and advancing uniformly and exponentially. Those who don't want to see it, will end up feeling it."
-Justice Minister and chief Israeli negotiator Tzipi Livni warns of the economic consequences of not making peace.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday December 30, 2013

Quote of the day:

"Want to meet the victims of hostile acts? Go to the village of Burin, south of Nablus, because no article can convey the fear, methodicalness, hypocrisy and collaboration of each entity that seeks to make the villagers loathe their lives."
--Haaretz's Amira Hass reports from the Palestinian village of Burin.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Sunday December 29, 2013

Quote of the day:

"I am angry at ministers in the Israeli government who give the public the feeling that 'Okay, let them keep talking, nothing will come of it anyway.'"
--Science Minister Yaakov Peri responds to comments by Economy Minister Naftali Bennett and has a few other things to say about what the government is doing.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday December 27, 2013

Quote of the day:

"They are trying to make Ariel part of the consensus, but as far as I am concerned it is not legitimate. You want me to perform there? Solve the problem."
-- Israeli actress Sarit Vino-Elad says she refuses to step foot in a theater built on occupied land and which posed an obstacle to peace with Palestinians.**
 

APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday December 26, 2013

Quote of the day:

"We don't tell the journalists what to write. We don't tell them publish this or that article or put in another article. They are the freest journalists in Israel."

--Miri, wife of Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who owns the free tabloid 'Israel Hayom' and is a close ally of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, claims the newspaper is balanced.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday December 24, 2013
 

Quote of the day:

"We hereby notify you that your children are involved in terrorist attacks against citizens of the state of Israel...Stop them before it's too late."
--IDF warning printed on leaflets hung in a Palestinian refugee camp. The leaflets displayed the photos of nine fathers of Palestinian boys.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday December 23, 2013

Quote of the day:

"The public space does not only belong to the Jewish majority."
--Christian Arab MK Hanna Swaid reacts to Knesset speaker's decision to his request to put a Christmas tree in the Knesset.**