APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday April 28, 2016
Note: During the Passover Holiday, News Nosh will be off Friday April 29th. It will resume regular publication on Sunday, May 1st.
Note: During the Passover Holiday, News Nosh will be off Friday April 29th. It will resume regular publication on Sunday, May 1st.
Quote of the day:
"We hope that when they go back to Gaza they will talk about the positive sides of Israeli society.
There are no politics in a hospital, only people. Just yesterday we treated a girl from Ramallah. Everyone here
is equal."
-- Dr. Joshua Schroeder, senior orthopedic surgeon at Hadassah Hospital after successfully completing a rare procedure that prevented a 3-year-old boy from the Gaza Strip from becoming paralyzed.
-- Dr. Joshua Schroeder, senior orthopedic surgeon at Hadassah Hospital after successfully completing a rare procedure that prevented a 3-year-old boy from the Gaza Strip from becoming paralyzed.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Erdogan: Turkish, Israeli negotiating teams to meet in mid-May
- Jury's out over Bennett's Jewish studies program for Israeli schools
- Netanyahu's do-nothing telecoms policy
- Clinton allies reject Trump's claim on Obama's Israel record
- Trump's support for Israel marred by revival of 'America First' slogan
- Damascus nightlife offers rare respite for young Syrians
- No methadone for Saudi Arabia's oil addiction
- For Jewish BDS supporters, personal morality trumps Jewish solidarity
- Don't turn Israeli pot smokers into criminals
- Jewish Harvard law students defend peer who called Livni 'smelly'
- 'Zahav' is James Beard best cookbook of year
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Trump: Obama snubbed Israel
- Youths vandalize historic site
- Asians are keen on matzot
- Anti-Israeli UK MP suspended
- Revisiting the Jordan option
- Nablus governor fired by Abbas lashes out
- Prime Minister calls for investigation of East Jerusalem elementary school
- Opinion: The incitement against Israel these days is reminiscent of the incitement against the Jews in the 1930's.
- Israeli delegation of industrialists go to Egypt for the first time in 10 years
Israel Hayom
- In rare procedure, Israeli doctors save Gazan Child from paralysis
- Israel laments UN's 'unfair criticism' over Golan Heights
- The Mr. Rogers Doctrine- Obama wants Saudi Arabia and Iran to 'share the neighborhood."
- Obama's conciliatory approach serves only our enemies
- The only feasible solution at Al-Aqsa is ensuring Jordan remains guardian of the holy site
- Terrorists to receive faster medical care at attack scenes
- Romania to speed up Holocaust-era property restitution
News Summary:
A high ranking IDF commander is sounding an alarm that Hezbollah is preparing for war with Israel.
It is widely reported that the Labour party in England has suspended MP Naz Shah over comments she made about Israel.
Israeli press also heavily covered a Washington think tank for downgrading Israel's 'press freedom' ranking from "free" to "partly free." "The major newspapers are privately owned, and some freely criticize government policies and aggressively pursue cases of official corruption," the report from Freedom House reported. "However, the popularity of the free newspaper Israel Hayom, which has captured about 40% of the market and is now the largest-circulation daily, has placed financial pressure on other mainstream papers..."