APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday June 24, 2016
You Must Be Kidding:
"He does not think it is an American imperative for it to be an independent Palestinian state. “
--David Friedman, advisor on Israel to US Presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
You Must Be Kidding:
"He does not think it is an American imperative for it to be an independent Palestinian state. “
--David Friedman, advisor on Israel to US Presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Haaretz investigation: Tens of millions of shekels flowed to settlements from a tax shelter in violation of the law
- Regardless of the results of the national referendum in Britain, the rift in Europe will be hard to heal // Anshel Pfeffer
- If Lieberman is counting on bringing down Hamas and crowing Dahlan – it is likely to end very badly // Amos Harel
- Trump’s advisor: I believe he will support annexing parts of the West Bank to Israel
- US Supreme Court froze Obama’s immigration reform
- The Israeli who led the global research on Tort solves the mechanism of the syndrome
- Sending a barrel with children to outer space – a Syrian story
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Union or apart – Sample results of British national referendum: Advantage to supporters of Britain staying in Europe
- The Shabbat revolution – public transportation running, stores open and short work week
- The soldier vs. the commander – After Maj. Tom Neeman testified against the Shooting Soldier (Elor Azariya), another soldier spoke out against his commander “He lied”; IDF Spokesman’s Unit: “The soldier did not see the shooting”
- Two against 100 // Nahum Barnea writes in support of the police document, which was a collection of suspected crimes by ministers and members of Knesset
- Cooling-off period // Sima Kadmon writes that Netanyahu’s few public appearances attest to his difficult mental state
- From the same village – 4 widows from the difficult incident in the (Second) Lebanon War share a painful conversation
- The path to protest – Viki Kanfo, Stav Shafir and Michael Biton talk about the protest marches they led
- “This is a racist state” – (Ethiopian-Israeli reality star) Tahunia does payback with Adi Shilon, from the docu-reality show, ‘The military unit’
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Between reconciliation (with Turkey) and incitement (by Abbas)
- Package on hold – What is really behind Netanyahu’s insistence not to accept the US military aid package that the Obama administration is offering a moment before the end of his term
- The choice of a nation (British national referendum)
- “Daddy took care of the children, mommy sent them to be adopted” The story of the doctor and wife to whose house arrived the children of the immigrants of Yemen
- Don’t deepen the wound // Sarah Beck
- Lone soldier: Who is trying to influence the judicial process in the affair of Elor Azariya (the Shooting Soldier from Hebron)? // Kalman Libskind
- The privileged envoy: The journeys of Tony Blair in the Middle East
- Storm in the Police gets greater - The head of the Intel Department, Commander Guy Nir, who was put on forced leave, was dismissed from his position due to ‘improper conduct’
Israel Hayom
- Britain’s fateful vote – staying or parting?
- “Abu Mazen lies and spreads blood libels”
- Blow to Obama: Justices blocked his immigration reform
- Abroad or here: Israelis on internal flights can buy from duty free at Timna Airport
- Anton Siyumin goes back to the battle in Lebanon for which he received a medal of courage
- Meet the Israeli women looking for an older rich husband
- Hila Alpert on vegan Arab food
- Special interview with Yehoshua (Shiki) Shani, who led the Hercules squadron in the Antebbe Operation
News Summary:
Britain voted whether to stay in the European Union or not [update, it voted to leave and Prime Minister David Cameron resigned – OH], Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas got a standing ovation in the European Union Parliament for his call to end the occupation and got accused by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of incitement for quoting a recent hoax claim that Israeli rabbis called on Israel to poison Palestinian wells [Jewish-American blogger Richard Silverstein did some research into the story – OH] and refused to meet with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin who was also in Brussels and left-wing and right-wing MKs slam a proposed law that would forbid MKs from challenging Knesset decisions in the High Court making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is heading to Rome to oppose the French Peace initiative and an advisor to Donald Trump told Haaretz+ that Trump doesn't believe that a Palestinian state is 'an American imperative.'
Britain voted whether to stay in the European Union or not [update, it voted to leave and Prime Minister David Cameron resigned – OH], Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas got a standing ovation in the European Union Parliament for his call to end the occupation and got accused by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of incitement for quoting a recent hoax claim that Israeli rabbis called on Israel to poison Palestinian wells [Jewish-American blogger Richard Silverstein did some research into the story – OH] and refused to meet with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin who was also in Brussels and left-wing and right-wing MKs slam a proposed law that would forbid MKs from challenging Knesset decisions in the High Court making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is heading to Rome to oppose the French Peace initiative and an advisor to Donald Trump told Haaretz+ that Trump doesn't believe that a Palestinian state is 'an American imperative.'
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.