APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday January 9, 2015
Quote of the day:
"Their voices usually go unheard. They do not appear on talk shows, and television series on Islam are
not interested in them...We’d rather have two-bit interpreters of religious law who shout “death to the
West..."
--Haaretz's Zvi Bar'el writes how the Western media neglects the Muslim majority.
--Haaretz's Zvi Bar'el writes how the Western media neglects the Muslim majority.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- France at front of battle over Europe’s future
- The incredible intelligence difficulty // Anshel Pfeffer
- A dangerous moment for the continent // NYT
- Pavlovian response against Islam // Zvi Bar’el
- Assault on journalists, assault on all of us // Andrew Salup
- Haaretz illustrators in a personal gesture
- (Defense Minister) Yaalon: There is no place to hold criminal investigation on “Black Friday” in Rafah
- Yisrael Beiteinu scandal: Police found $115K at home of CEO of Agriculture Ministry
- Lieberman formulated framework for political (peace) agreement with a well-known Arab
- Galant joined Kahlon and expressed sorrow over the land scandal: “Today I would have acted differently”
- Protocols reveal: Shin Bet knew about intention to assassinate Kastner
- For this there’s money: Why did the Defense Ministry make a monument only for the Bukharan ethnic group? // Amir Oren
- Journey to the enclave of the Yazidis in Kurdistan, a group in danger of extinction // Tzur Shezaf
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Darkness in the City of Lights – Eiffel Tower darkened in memory of the victims of the terror attack on the newspaper
- Godless // Daniella London Dekel
- Michel Kishkeh // My Charlie
- Coooold – Prepare for a weekend under the comforter
- Habayit Hayehudi party comes out of the closet – Party that presented itself as liberal reveals in campaign its aversion to homosexuals
- Channel 2 (Reshet) gives up on political satire – now of all times
- [Cartoon of PM as a snowman with arms crossed]
- The first phone call // Nahum Barnea writes that if Netanyahu wins the elections he will call Opposition leader Herzog first
- The day of them // Sima Kadmon on Netanyahu blaming others for all the state’s woes
- Where is the truth // Sever Plocker writes that there is not basis for Netanyahu’s claim that a government decision in 2008 is what caused the high prices of housing
- (King) David’s guilt // Meir Shalev writes that he’s surprised that Netanyahu was satisfied blaming only contemporary leaders
- Orna’s situation – “I paid a heavy price, but also in the future I won’t shut my mouth” – After the storm she caused with her words on Operation Protective Edge, comes comedian Orna Banai’s reckoning
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Turning off the lights – France marked a day of national mourning yesterday
- Attack in Jerusalem: (Jewish) Youth stabbed in back with screwdriver at Damascus Gate (in E. Jerusalem), in moderate condition
- Galant: I paid for my mistakes – Gen. (res.) Yoav Galant joined Kahlon’s Kulanu party
- State freeze – Second wave of blizzard
- Yosef, 14, murdered over a bicycle
- Golden kippah: This is how monies are transferred from state budget to various religious Zionist institutions
- Spy games: Did the Mossad succeed to operate a double agent in Hezbollah’s elite unit // Yossi Melman
- The revenge: Amram Mitzna resigns and makes a frontal attack on Tzip Livni
Israel Hayom
- Darkness at the Eiffel Tower
- Israel goes under 0 degrees (Celsius)
- Apologizes and joins – Yoav Galant joins Kahlon’s party
- Attack at Damascus Gate: Yeshiva student stabbed
- Yosef Zohar, only 14 years old (stabbed to death)
- Yaalon: There is no place for a criminal investigation of the events of the “Black Friday in Rafah”
News Summary:
The terror attack in Paris and the blizzard in Israel continued to be the top stories in Friday’s Hebrew newspapers. Haaretz, Yedioth and Ynet also reported on the negative reactions of Muslims to the attack on the satirical newspaper, such as by Arab cartoonists and reactions by the Arab media. Also in the news was the stabbing of a yeshiva student at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City and the thwarting of a suspected attack on an Israeli embassy in Uruguay. Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said the IDF should not probe ‘Rafah’s Black Friday.' Military advocate general, Maj. Gen. Dan Efroni, is expected to decide whether the Givati’s brigade’s actions that day during Israel's Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, which led to the killing of possibly 150 civilians in the Palestinian city of Rafah, warrant opening a criminal investigation. Ynet previously revealed a recording of the events leading up to and following kidnapping and death of 2nd-Lt. Hadar Goldin that Friday.
The terror attack in Paris and the blizzard in Israel continued to be the top stories in Friday’s Hebrew newspapers. Haaretz, Yedioth and Ynet also reported on the negative reactions of Muslims to the attack on the satirical newspaper, such as by Arab cartoonists and reactions by the Arab media. Also in the news was the stabbing of a yeshiva student at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City and the thwarting of a suspected attack on an Israeli embassy in Uruguay. Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said the IDF should not probe ‘Rafah’s Black Friday.' Military advocate general, Maj. Gen. Dan Efroni, is expected to decide whether the Givati’s brigade’s actions that day during Israel's Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, which led to the killing of possibly 150 civilians in the Palestinian city of Rafah, warrant opening a criminal investigation. Ynet previously revealed a recording of the events leading up to and following kidnapping and death of 2nd-Lt. Hadar Goldin that Friday.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.