APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday May 1, 2015 
 

Quote of the day:

"They took my shoes and beat me with a crowbar."
--Walla Bayach, an Israeli of Ethiopian descent who was filmed being attacked by inspectors from Israel's Population and Immigration Authority, thinks it was because they thought he was a migrant.**

Front Page:

Haaretz

• The prosecutor at The Hague: We can investigate and sue also lower ranks
• Harsh clashes at demo of Ethiopian community (against police brutality)
• The only surprise is that the protest did not draw the masses // Or Kashti
• What Netanyahu learned from the Godfather // Yossi Verter
• Kahlon demanded and Netanyahu agreed to double the salary of soldiers
• In the ultra-Orthodox sector, celebrations the coalition agreements
• The gap between workers and employers grew, and it’s not by chance // Or Kashti
• Not IDF property: Female soldiers talk about sexual harassment they suffered in military service
• Sexual harassment in academia: Little reporting, much less awareness // Yarden Skop
• Wounded lay in the streets in Katmandu, but the private and advanced hospital – is empty

Yedioth Ahronoth

• Expensive politics - A billion shekels for ultra-Orthodox education
• Two years were erased // Sima Kadmon
• The cry of the Ethiopian (Israelis) (Photo of Ethiopian carrying sign ‘Be free in our country’ in a struggle with riot police
• Stop the racism // Tal Yalo
• Tonight: Sabbath (public) bus in Jerusalem
• Robbie (Williams) is here (to perform)
• The ‘Panther’ speaks: Hisham Suleiman, who portrays ‘Abu Ahmed’ in the popular series, ‘Fawda,’ in an interview that has causes a storm
• Twin luck – Moment after landing with surrogate twins, Ohad Hitman tells about life after the (Nepal) disaster 
• And, what is the fate of the thousands of injured Nepalis after the rescue teams leave?

Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)

• “Our blood is only good for war” – Protest of Ethiopian Israelis
• “At the bottom of the food chain” // Yiftah Al Ratta
• “The police is not the enemy” // MK Avraham Naguise
• Shas returns to government
• The holy trinity // Ben Caspit writes that the three most important portfolios to Netanyahu are the Justice, Public Security and Communications Ministries
• “Don’t get near her” – Recording of exchange between father of (sexually harassed female soldier) May Fattal and (the harasser, IDF commander) Liron Hajabi, after the commander of the Kfir Brigades ambushed her outside her home, according to the Fattal family
• Looking for Or Asraf – the last Israeli not found in Nepal
• Who is number 1? Behind the scenes of the battle over the next Police Commissioner
• Now me: Mohammed Dahlan is scattering millions on the way to leading the Palestinain Authority
• Blood Bloc: the explosions and battles. Map of crime in the center of the country is exposed

Israel Hayom

• Likely: Sharp rise in property tax on apartments for investment
• Deri getting close to government: Expected to be Minister of Economy and Religions
• (Ethiopian-Israeli) Protest and violence
• Improve the absorption of the children of the (Ethiopian) immigrants // Dan Margalit  
• Living among the ruins – Israeli, Norwegian and French rescue teams worked 10 hours to rescue a young Nepali woman from the ruins. One Israeli still missing
• The return from Nepal – Alon and Amir retell the horrifying moments with their new baby
• “It’s not an obligation, it’s a right” – Israel helps tourists and local in Nepal

News Summary:

**Details on coalition agreements with Likud that will cost Israel millions of shekels and violence with police at a protest by Ethiopian-Israelis against police brutality were the top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
 

Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.