APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday January 16, 2015
Number of the day:
36.
--Percentage of Israelis who DO want Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to serve another term.
58% do not and 6% are unsure. **
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Expansive operation against jihad activists in Belgium who planned attacks
- Jews of France understand: the future of their children is elsewhere // Yair Ettinger
- Bennett’s dilemma after disappointing primaries // Chaim Levinson
- Herzog has a good reason to feel he’s on the horse // Yossi Verter
- Lieberman presented the party campaign, Yair Shamir is off the list
- Struggle in Meretz for the spot Nitzan Horowitz vacated
- Ahead of union: tomorrow primaries in Hadash and Balad
- US: Boku Haram is perpetrating crimes against humanity in Nigeria, we will form a front against it
- Senior official in Israel Lands Authority and a former MK suspected of fraud
- Education Ministry invested 10 times more in programs for Judaism than in education for democracy
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Closing the (party) lists
- Internal wars // Nahum Barnea
- TV polls: Herzog and Livni getting stronger
- Like one, the people // Igal Sarna
- Senior official in Israel Lands Authority arrested
- Women in Labor (party)
- Kim Kardashian is in our hands
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- Moving up a gear – Hamachaneh Hatzioni (Herzog-Livni) is ahead of Likud’; Lieberman opened campaign: “Um al-Fahem to Palestine”; (Shas’) Deri: “We will make sure to be transparent”;
- Kahlon reveals his top people; Primaries in Habayit Hayehudi: Shaked is first, disappointment for Bennett’s seculars
- Women’s power // Ben Caspit
- Police in Belgium: “We prevented a ‘Charlie Hebdo style’ attack”
- Ben Caspit on the conversation between Netanyahu and Hollande; that wasn’t; Udi Segal on the prime minister’s march, Yossi Melman on the police security of the Jews; Gideon Kotz on the new spirit in the French government,
- Suspicion: Senior official used his position to advance real estate transactions
- Change of guard in High Court: Miriam Naor sworn in as chief justice
Israel Hayom
- Belgium fights terror: 2 jihadists eliminated
- 75% of public: PM was right when he flew to march in Paris
- Chief Justice Naor
- Initiative: ״Election polling station people: lone soldiers”
- Elections: The opening whistle
- Revolution in Likud: (MK Tzipi) Hotovely beat (former minister Avi) Dichter
- Israeli pride: Short film ‘Aya’ candidate for Oscar
News Summary:
Ahead of the national elections in Israel in March, polls, party lists and campaigns made top stories in Friday’s Hebrew newspapers along with the Belgian counter-terror raid that killed two jihadists and the arrest of a senior Israeli official and a former MK over fraud.
**All the polls in today’s papers (with the exception of Israel Hayom, which did not print any on elections) show the joint Isaac Herog – Tzipi Livni party, Hamachaneh Hatzioni – or the Zionist Camp, is leading. According to a Maariv poll, the Zionist Camp gets 25 Knesset seats to Likud’s 22, Habayit Hayehudi’s 17, Yesh Atid’s 11 and the joint Arab and Hadash party’s 11. Maariv reported that only 36% of respondents want Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for another term. A Channel 10 poll gave the Zionist Camp 24 Knesset seats as opposed 20 for Likud. A Channel 2 poll gave the Zionist Camp 25 seats and Likud 23. More details here. The only poll Israel Hayom published today was about whether Netanyahu did right to go to the march of leaders in Paris and whether he acted properly there. The majority of respondents said yes.
Foreign Minister and leader of Yisrael Beiteinu party, Avigdor Lieberman, launched his party’s campaign with the slogan 'Ariel (settlement) for Israel, (Arab Israeli city) Umm al-Fahm for Palestine.' Maariv wrote that Lieberman was ‘breaking hard to the right’ with a ‘transfer campaign.’ [However, Lieberman raised the plan for transferring Israeli Arab citizens and the land they live on to the Palestinian state and annexing settlements to Israel long ago and never changed that vision. – OH] Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, leader of the far right-wing Habayit Hayehudi party, got disappointing results from his party’s primaries: mainly religious and Ashkenazi Jews and not secular candidates that he had hoped for.
Ahead of the national elections in Israel in March, polls, party lists and campaigns made top stories in Friday’s Hebrew newspapers along with the Belgian counter-terror raid that killed two jihadists and the arrest of a senior Israeli official and a former MK over fraud.
**All the polls in today’s papers (with the exception of Israel Hayom, which did not print any on elections) show the joint Isaac Herog – Tzipi Livni party, Hamachaneh Hatzioni – or the Zionist Camp, is leading. According to a Maariv poll, the Zionist Camp gets 25 Knesset seats to Likud’s 22, Habayit Hayehudi’s 17, Yesh Atid’s 11 and the joint Arab and Hadash party’s 11. Maariv reported that only 36% of respondents want Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for another term. A Channel 10 poll gave the Zionist Camp 24 Knesset seats as opposed 20 for Likud. A Channel 2 poll gave the Zionist Camp 25 seats and Likud 23. More details here. The only poll Israel Hayom published today was about whether Netanyahu did right to go to the march of leaders in Paris and whether he acted properly there. The majority of respondents said yes.
Foreign Minister and leader of Yisrael Beiteinu party, Avigdor Lieberman, launched his party’s campaign with the slogan 'Ariel (settlement) for Israel, (Arab Israeli city) Umm al-Fahm for Palestine.' Maariv wrote that Lieberman was ‘breaking hard to the right’ with a ‘transfer campaign.’ [However, Lieberman raised the plan for transferring Israeli Arab citizens and the land they live on to the Palestinian state and annexing settlements to Israel long ago and never changed that vision. – OH] Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, leader of the far right-wing Habayit Hayehudi party, got disappointing results from his party’s primaries: mainly religious and Ashkenazi Jews and not secular candidates that he had hoped for.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.