APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday November 27, 2015
Quote of the day:
“I’m out of ideas."
--What US Secretary of State John Kerry told Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a phone conversation on the way to the airport after their meeting to discuss how to stop the violence came up empty, according to a US source.
--What US Secretary of State John Kerry told Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a phone conversation on the way to the airport after their meeting to discuss how to stop the violence came up empty, according to a US source.
Breaking News:
Two Israeli soldiers wounded in alleged car-ramming attack near Kfar Adumim settlement in West Bank
The two soldiers were wounded, the assailant, Fadi Hasib, 25, was shot dead on the scene. Hasib is the brother of Shadi Hasib, 32, who was shot dead near the same place on Sunday after he hit an Israeli’s car and allegedly tried to stab the driver. Palestinians said Shadi got out of his car to check for damage when he was shot dead. (Haaretz, Maariv and Maan)
Front Page:
Haaretz
- After failure of Kerry’s visit, cabinet discussed possibility of collapse of Palestinian Authority
- Diplomatic achievement: Israel to open official representative in Abu Dhabi
- 100 years to the Theory of Relativity
- Three testimonies helping (sex crime) complaint against police major general
- Ahead of ruling in (Rabbi) Pinto file: Bodyguards for investigating team, State Prosecutor and other senior officials instructed to take precautions
- Visit to first shelter for ultra-Orthodox who leave religion
- Everyone agrees that the Negev needs to be built up, the question is how
- Double agent and a therapist: From Denmark to Al-Qaeda and back // Zvi Bar’el
Yedioth Ahronoth
- At the height of tension: Chief of Staff secretly visited in Brussels
- Tears at the chuppah
- The rescuer discovered that his daughter was killed (in traffic accident)
- The police major general: “This is a blood libel”
- Magal and the sword
- Doesn’t forgive – MK Karin Al-Harar tells exactly what MK Oren Hazan said to her
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- IDF signals: Prepared for every scenario in the north
- Police: (Journalist) Rotner refuses to file complaint (against MK Yinon Magal for sexual harassment)
- In the land of shaming // Ben Caspit
- The house (Habayit Hayehudi party) has fallen // Kalman Libskind
- Why kind of (sexual) genius // Udi Segal
- She’s not apologizing // Hagit Ginsburg
- (Wedding) With tears of sadness and happiness
- He arrived to rescue wounded and discovered his daughter was killed
- Closing the conspiracy file on the murder of Yitzhak Rabin
- My meeting with the grandson of the commander of Auschwitz // Tal Bashan
Israel Hayom
- The firefighter discovered: His daughter the soldier was killed
- “We won’t down any Russian plane” – Israeli source
- Testimonies against the police commander suspected of sexual harassment: “He tried to forcibly kiss the female officer”
- The wedding that moved the country
- Attorney General ruled: Netanyahu’s words about Arabs and the voting (“Arabs are going in droves to vote”) – is not incitement
- The dilemma of the “situation”: Fight terror while “keeping it in proportion” or going for “something big” // Nadav Shragai, Shlomo Cesana and Yaakov Amidror
News Summary:
Most of today’s Hebrew newspapers focused on the human stories: the wedding of a woman whose father and brother were murdered by a Palestinian, the latest on the sexual harassment cases of an MK of a religious party and of a high-ranking police commander and the fireman who arrived at the scene to discover his daughter was killed.
Haaretz’s Barak Ravid had an insightful report on the cabinet meeting about the wave of violence that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held after the failed meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry. Sources said they discussed the possibility of the collapse of the Palestinian Authority due to Israeli actions and that some ministers thought that would be good for Israel. Ravid also wrote about the reasons for Netanyahu backtracking on the package of gestures for the Palestinians he told Kerry he was willing to offer.
Meanwhile, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot made a secret visit to Brussels this week during the capital’s state of emergency and me with the top US military commander in charge of Europe and possibly with European intelligence officials as well. (Also, Maariv)
In the West Bank, Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians Thursday. One was killed in an alleged attempted stabbing attack at Tapuach Junction. Another, Mahmoud al-Jawabreh, 19, was killed in clashes in Al-Aroub refugee camp north of Hebron. And Yahiya Yusri Taha, 21, was shot in the head during an IDF night arrest raid on the village of Qatanna. Sixteen more youth were shot and injured during clashes that broke out after Taha’s funeral. And thousands of Palestinians took part in the funeral of Ibrahim Abdul-Halim Dawood, 16, who died Wednesday, two weeks after he was shot in his heart in clashes at Al-Bireh.
Also worthy of noting, armed Palestinian protesters closed the main road leading to Qalandiya checkpoint, demanding the release of the body of 14-year-old Hadil Wajih Awwad, who was shot dead this week after she stabbed an elderly men with a scissors. [The shooting dead of Hadil was controversial because she had already been injured and on the ground, as some commentators and a senior IDF commander noted. – OH]
Most of today’s Hebrew newspapers focused on the human stories: the wedding of a woman whose father and brother were murdered by a Palestinian, the latest on the sexual harassment cases of an MK of a religious party and of a high-ranking police commander and the fireman who arrived at the scene to discover his daughter was killed.
Haaretz’s Barak Ravid had an insightful report on the cabinet meeting about the wave of violence that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held after the failed meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry. Sources said they discussed the possibility of the collapse of the Palestinian Authority due to Israeli actions and that some ministers thought that would be good for Israel. Ravid also wrote about the reasons for Netanyahu backtracking on the package of gestures for the Palestinians he told Kerry he was willing to offer.
Meanwhile, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot made a secret visit to Brussels this week during the capital’s state of emergency and me with the top US military commander in charge of Europe and possibly with European intelligence officials as well. (Also, Maariv)
In the West Bank, Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians Thursday. One was killed in an alleged attempted stabbing attack at Tapuach Junction. Another, Mahmoud al-Jawabreh, 19, was killed in clashes in Al-Aroub refugee camp north of Hebron. And Yahiya Yusri Taha, 21, was shot in the head during an IDF night arrest raid on the village of Qatanna. Sixteen more youth were shot and injured during clashes that broke out after Taha’s funeral. And thousands of Palestinians took part in the funeral of Ibrahim Abdul-Halim Dawood, 16, who died Wednesday, two weeks after he was shot in his heart in clashes at Al-Bireh.
Also worthy of noting, armed Palestinian protesters closed the main road leading to Qalandiya checkpoint, demanding the release of the body of 14-year-old Hadil Wajih Awwad, who was shot dead this week after she stabbed an elderly men with a scissors. [The shooting dead of Hadil was controversial because she had already been injured and on the ground, as some commentators and a senior IDF commander noted. – OH]
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.