APN's daily news review from Israel  - Thursday May 14, 2020

NOTE:  Americans for Peace Now (APN) is thrilled to announce that its Board of Directors has appointed Hadar Susskind as APN’s new President and CEO, effective tomorrow, Friday May 15th. Born in Israel and raised in the US, Hadar comes to APN after a rich, diverse career in Washington DC, advocating for peace, fighting for democracy, and championing social justice. Hadar joins APN during the most challenging threat posed to date to the two-state solution: annexation. Hadar will be responsible for leading the organization and charting new paths for it at a time of great challenges for APN’s mission.

Quote of the day:

"And finally, this is not murder. If Sgt. 1st Class Ben-Yigal was murdered, then 15-year-old Zeid Fadl Qasiya, who was shot to death by soldiers in the Al-Fawar refugee camp, was definitely murdered. If a rock-throwing terrorist is a murderer, then the fighter who shoots teenagers is also a murderer."
--Commentator Gideon Levy writes a sharp Op-Ed about the cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday May 7, 2020

Number of the day: 28

Percentage of Jewish respondents who think Israel should annex territories in the West Bank, even if annexation will harm relations with Jordan, according to poll found that more Israelis care about peace with Jordan than annexation.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday May 6, 2020

You Must Be Kidding: 

In the Israeli Health Ministry's first ad campaign in Arabic for country's Arab population,  the illustrations looked as if they were directed at the citizens of Saudi Arabia, sparking an emotional uproar among the Arab community. The ads were removed immediately.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday May 4, 2020

Quote of the day:

“There is no justice (for Palestinians) in the (Israeli) courts. Anyone who tells you otherwise there is a liar. I can be arrested for months for a traffic violation, but they (who murdered my wife) have all been released, even though their trial is not over. Nothing has happened for months.”
--Yacoub Rabi, whose wife Aisha, 49, was murdered by settler youth who threw rocks at her car, speaks in an interview about his life since the murder.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday May 3, 2020

 Quote of the day:

"We're at the dawn of a new era.”
--Daoud Siyam, a social activist from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, hopes that the positive treatment by Jerusalem's right-wing mayor, Moshe Leon, to help Palestinian Jerusalemites facing the corona crisis will not end with a vaccine.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Justice Ido Droyan-Gamliel of the Lod district court has ruled to allow a young settler suspected of killing a Palestinian woman after throwing a five pound rock at her car, killing her, to return to his home, despite objections by the Shin Bet security service and state prosecutors. His DNA was found on the rock.**

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday April 30, 2020

You Must Be Kidding: 
"...We have one day in a year to remember our fallen soldiers! And you destroy it with a ‘memorial’ to Palestinian terrorists! EU is an enemy of Israel, and an enemy to all European Christian countries!.."
--Yair, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, wrote on Twitter that European Union support for the peaceful joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial ceremony for Israel’s Memorial Day made the EU Israel's enemy and he expressed his hope that for the end of the EU and that European countries would be 'Christian.'**