APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 23, 2015
You Must Be Kidding:
"I feel bad. I found myself in an uncomfortable situation, which I am sorry about. I am in a little bit of a poor mental state, but it will be alright."
--Dudu Moyal, who was seen in the video clip throwing a bench on the face of mortally wounded Eritrean Habtoum Zarhoum, said after the court hearing, in which he and three others were released from house arrest. Zarhoum died.
Breaking News:
IDF Bedouin Soldier Wounded in West Bank Stabbing Attack
The 20-year-old, who is a tracker in the Israeli army, sustained light wounds from an attack in Gush Etzion; the assailant was shot and injured. (also Ynet)
Vigilant Jerusalemites thwart attempted terrorist stabbing
Residents of Nof Zion neighborhood report to police on suspicious individual, who later confesses to having planned knife attack • Meanwhile, Palestinian stabs Israeli soldier in shoulder at checkpoint near Beit Shemesh • Palestinians call "day of rage."
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Without a diplomatic solution, IDF expects wave of terror to escalate
- Obligatory program of state-religious education: “Raise fervor for the Holy Temple (at the Temple Mount)”
- 20 years to Rabin’s murder
- Israeli Atomic Energy Commission: Nuclear agreement is good and will prevent Iran from getting the bomb
- Glass ceiling in Mossad: Women don’t reach top ranks
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Abu-Mazen to Arab MKS: Don’t go to Temple Mount
- (Jewish man) Killed (by soldiers) because of a shout
- Not just a slip of the tongue // Nahum Barnea on Netanyahu’s claim that the Mufti was responsible for the Holocaust
- Wild West // Sima Kadmon on how Israelis have taken the law into their own hands
- Mine field // Alex Fishman on how IDF will have to face armed Palestinians when it tries to demolish Palestinian terrorists’ homes in E. Jerusalem
- The Hamas default // Yossi Yehoshua writes that Hamas favors a knife intifada over suicide attacks
- The Palestinian President’s dilemma // Yoaz Hendel writes that Israel needs to decide whether to deal with Mahmoud Abbas like ISIS or to cooperate with him
- The followers of the Mufti // Ben-Dror Yemini says that even if Netanyahu was wrong, many Palestinian spokespeople are followers of the Mufti
- Harry Potter vs. the boycott on Israel
- Columnist Raanan Shaked on going to buy a gun // Raanan Shaked
- Netanyahu’s election campaign advisor, Didi Harari, admits: The statement about Arabs going in droves to the polls was a mistake
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- The attack and the silence – High Court ordered to freeze the demolition of homes of terrorists – and elicited harsh reactions from Likud and Habayit Hayehudi
- Despite the incitement: brother-in-law of Abu Mazen had life-saving surgery in Tel-Aviv
- Palestinian and Jordanian representatives took advantage of a UN Security Council debate to accuse Israel again of violating the status quo at the Temple Mount and of murdering children
- Our Holocaust // Ben Caspit writes that Netanyahu’s speech aided Holocaust deniers
- Outside the law // Kalman Libskind writes that the state has let Bedouin Israelis do as they will and now they are being ‘Palestinized’
- Divide and conquer // Alon Ben-David writes that the prime minister, the IDF and the Shin Bet are either not acting or not able to find solutions to the Palestinian violence and are leaving the stage to the random Israeli citizen or security person, hoping he will save the situation
- 20 years to Rabin’s murder
- Forever, my brother: Rachel Rabin-Yaakov does not forget or forgive. Interview
- The killer and I: Yoram Ben-Harush, the interrogator of Yigal Amir, is revealed
Israel Hayom
- Fury in the right-wing: High Court delaying demolition of terrorists’ homes, Storm over MK Moti Regev’s crude remarks
- The Jew who was suspected of being a terrorist yelled, “I am ISIS”
- The legal filter of the law is vital // Dan Margalit
- Stalling in demolition – weakening deterrence // Haim Shine
- On Sunday, the ministers will discuss the (Jewish) nation-state bill
- 20 years to Rabin’s murder
- War of nerves - As long as the wave of terror, so it becomes clear that we are in the middle of another chapter of the conflict
News Summary:
The right-wing made ‘unbridled’ attacks on the High Court for delaying demolitions of the homes of Palestinian killers and the Justice Minister was silent, the Israeli soldiers who killed the Jewish man in Jerusalem said he shouted, “I am ISIS,” [and the media gave conflicting reports describing him (Ynet vs. Haaretz)], and a judge released from house arrest the four Jewish suspects in the Beersheva lynching of the Eritrean man, but not before he harshly criticized the attack on the innocent man – and the public atmosphere that allowed this (Yedioth), making top stories in the Hebrew newspapers. Also, in the news, Palestinian and Jordanian representatives at the UN accused Israel of violating the status quo at the Temple Mount and of murdering Palestinian children and following protests in front of his house, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to an urban building plan for the isolated far-right-wing settlement of Itamar.
The right-wing made ‘unbridled’ attacks on the High Court for delaying demolitions of the homes of Palestinian killers and the Justice Minister was silent, the Israeli soldiers who killed the Jewish man in Jerusalem said he shouted, “I am ISIS,” [and the media gave conflicting reports describing him (Ynet vs. Haaretz)], and a judge released from house arrest the four Jewish suspects in the Beersheva lynching of the Eritrean man, but not before he harshly criticized the attack on the innocent man – and the public atmosphere that allowed this (Yedioth), making top stories in the Hebrew newspapers. Also, in the news, Palestinian and Jordanian representatives at the UN accused Israel of violating the status quo at the Temple Mount and of murdering Palestinian children and following protests in front of his house, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to an urban building plan for the isolated far-right-wing settlement of Itamar.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.