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News Nosh 10.29.19

by APN 10/29/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday October 29, 2019
 
Quote of the day:
"In my opinion, he was the most important person in the illegal immigration campaign from Iraq. I was in all these activities, and without him they would not have succeeded. His contribution to Israel's security and to Zionism is great.”
--Shlomo Hillel, 96, friend and colleague of legendary and controversial Iraqi-Israeli spy, Shmuel Moriya, who died this week at the age of 95.*

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News Nosh 10.28.19

by APN 10/28/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday October 28, 2019
 

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*Israel has given Palestinian photographer Mustafa Al-Kharouf three weeks to change his residence status or leave the country. Al-Kharouf was born in Algeria and has lived in E. Jerusalem since he was 12, he is married to a Palestinian woman and has no other nationality.**

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News Nosh 10.27.19

by APN 10/27/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 27, 2019
 
Quote of the day:
"A prime minister has two assets: the law that gives him his high standing and the trust that the public holds in him. The newspaper owner has two assets: the readers' confidence and the professional resilience of the journalists who work at his newspaper. The recordings from the Netanyahu-Mozes talks, some of which (journalist) Raviv Drucker aired last night on Channel 13, collapse the basis for the trust that both of these people stand on."
--Top Yedioth political commentator Nahum Barnea writes about the recording of his publisher and his prime minister.*

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News Nosh 10.24.19

by APN 10/24/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 24, 2019  

Quote of the day #1:

“Even people who can’t imagine a reasonable life without Netanyahu must admit that Benny Gantz looked prime ministerial (or in American terms, presidential) Wednesday night. He paid due respect to every segment of Israeli society – the ultra-Orthodox, whom he promised to treat like brothers, Arabs, Druze, gays and rightists.”
—Haaretz political commentator Yossi Verter comments after speech by Kahol-Lavan leader Benny Gantz upon receiving the mandate to form a government.*

Quote of the day #2:
"Gantz spoke yesterday like a prime minister, he dressed like a prime minister and he acted like a prime minister. Now he needs the nerves of steel and the patience."
--Maariv political commentator Ben Caspit comments after speech by Kahol-Lavan leader Benny Gantz upon receiving the mandate to form a government.


You Must Be Kidding:
An Israeli nature authority inspector fined a Palestinian farmer 750 shekels ($212) for harvesting olives from his own tree on his own property.**

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News Nosh 10.23.19

by APN 10/23/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 23, 2019 

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In 2018, more than 20,000 Palestinians paid almost half a billion shekels ($140 million) to brokers and Israeli companies and employers to receive a permit to work in Israel - between one-third and one-half of their potential earning power in Israel.
--A recent study by the Bank of Israel estimates that around one-third of West Bank workers in Israel must pay much of their earnings in order to work.*

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News Nosh 10.17.19

by APN 10/17/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 17, 2019

NOTE: News Nosh will be on Sukkot holiday from Sunday through Tuesday, October 20-22.
 
Quote of the day:
“To me it doesn’t matter if it’s a Muslim, a Christian or a Jew, the issue is to save someone’s life."
--Naif Abu-Arar, mayor of the Bedouin Israeli village of Arara and eldest brother of 17-year-old Issa, who was killed in a car accident. Abu-Arar decided to donate his youngest brother’s heart, despite opposition from family and religious figures. A Jewish man became the recipient. ”It's as if my brother is still alive, but in a different way,” said Abu-Arar.*

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News Nosh 10.16.19

by APN 10/16/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 16, 2019
 
Conversation of the day:
Audio from video recordings of three Israeli Border Police officers sent to stand near a mosque for hours in the E. Jerusalem village of Issawiyah, during which time they sometimes were seen raising their weapons as if purportedly aiming it a resident seen in the background. A large number of pedestrians and vehicles passed the policemen, but none approached them.
First police officer: “This is really provoking them for nothing.”
Second police officer is heard agreeing.
Later the first policemen said: “Why do this on purpose?”
The second one replied: “Our policy is screwed up from the outset.”
The first policeman then comments: “Let them live. You’re provoking them here for nothing.”
Several minutes later the first policeman addressed a third: “I have a question for you. Isn’t what we’re doing here causing more problems?”
The third policeman replied: “That’s the goal.”*

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News Nosh 10.10.19

by APN 10/10/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 10, 2019

NOTE: News Nosh will be on Sukkot holiday from Sunday through Tuesday, October 13-15. The Nosh will be back on Wednesday.
 
Quote of the day:
"One’s heart bleeds over the vast sums, sweat and ideological fervor squandered on the settlement project. But Israel has successfully faced greater challenges. If we were able to absorb 30,000 people each month at the height of the Russian immigration of the 1990s, we can certainly resettle five times that many Israelis over an extended period – in exchange for peace."
--Former general, Chuck Freilich, writes about his recent visit to West Bank settlements and his conversation with settlers.*

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News Nosh 10.7.19

by APN 10/07/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday October 7, 2019

NOTE: News Nosh will be off during Yom Kippur, Tuesday and Wednesday this week, and back on Thursday.
 

 You Must Be Kidding: 

"It's not only a matter of funding. It's a question of priorities. The police need to decide if their top priority is to investigate the prime minister's cigars or these matters [violence against women]."
--Communications Minister David Amsalem (Likud) suggested that police should not deal with the Prime Minister's corruption cases because they couldn't deal with the violence against women at the same time.**

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News Nosh 10.6.19

by APN 10/06/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 6, 2019
 
Quote of the Day #1:
"I'm afraid of being a victim, but no less, I'm afraid of being a simple witness. And so, and because my life has turned into a nightmare, I'm on strike today and will probably have to go a bit wild and join some sort of road blocking act, hoping that our raging protest will have a place in some news release, which Minister of Public Security, Gilad Erdan, will happen to hear. When you hear the same news broadcast about Arab rioters blocking roads, please remember the justified protest of Ethiopian immigrants in the summer, remember that then there was not a single victim, and we demand similar treatment."
--Amjad Shavita, managing co-director of Sikkuy - The Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality, wrote in an Op-Ed, why he no longer walks his daughter to kindergarten.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
“We are in luck that the Arabs boycotted the opening ceremony of the 22nd Knesset. They would have shot into the air to express happiness/sadness/their protest/ because that's their habit, and then, of course, blame the police."
--Far-right-wing, racist religious settler Transportation Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, wrote on Twitter, after the Arab MKs boycotted the ceremony as a gesture of protest against the violent crime in Arab society, which they call on the government to eliminate.*

Quote of the Day #2:
“I’m surprised the racist [Smotrich] didn't take our seats and claim God told him they are his."  
--Ayman Odeh, leader of the Joint List, responded, noting Smotrich’s Messianic settler ideology.*

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