APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday January 6, 2017
You Must Be
Kidding:
“Someone should take a grenade and blow her up and spread the remaining bits of her around so that her body will be eaten by dogs. G-d will pay her back for this!!!!”
--Post written in social media network by an Israeli angry at military judge Maya Heller who convicted Sgt. Elor Azariya of manslaughter in the execution of Palestinian assailant Abdul Fattah Al-Sharif. Israel's Chief Justice warned that the incitement against judges endangered Israeli democracy.
“Someone should take a grenade and blow her up and spread the remaining bits of her around so that her body will be eaten by dogs. G-d will pay her back for this!!!!”
--Post written in social media network by an Israeli angry at military judge Maya Heller who convicted Sgt. Elor Azariya of manslaughter in the execution of Palestinian assailant Abdul Fattah Al-Sharif. Israel's Chief Justice warned that the incitement against judges endangered Israeli democracy.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Arnon Milchin gave a detailed testimony about the funding of Netanyahu’s lifestyle
- The suspect revealed his strategy // Yossi Verter
- Gifts are chasing Netanyahu for 20 years already // Amir Oren
- Rulings in similar affairs are not equal // Sharon Pulwer
- Increasing number of demolitions in Area C: Dozens of Palestinians lost their homes in two days
- Azariya’s verdict only encouraged public representatives to attack the army // Amos Harel
- More than 20 incidents of shooting Palestinians were investigated in 2016. Only Azariya was detained
- Treasury tried to thwart initiative to increase safety at construction sites – out of fear that hit would increase cost of housing
- Due to pressure from his family, the suspect in the shooting in Haifa turned himself in to the police
- Conclusion of Obama’s term – His achievements and failures; He left orphaned fans; He preferred his country over the Middle East, a tragedy known in advance
- Attorney General decided that MK Ghattas will be indicted
- The stolen diary of the first Jew in America was discovered
- Future of Israeli economy is in India
- Story of trade in babies in young Israel // David Gedge
Yedioth Ahronoth
- “Was it worth it to fight for a nation that hates itself” – Captain (res.) Ziv Shilon, who lost his arm in action in Gaza, calls out in condemnation of the rampant incitement following the conviction of Elor Azariya and calls on the public to join him in a demonstration tomorrow at Rabin Square: “Come, hug our country”
- Questioned for 5 hours (photo of Netanyahu)
- Living on the expense account of others // Sima Kadmon
- Oren Hazan is getting married
- The alcohol phenomenon among youth. And now, what is happening in the Scouts
- Beyond the fence – Author Dorit Rabinyan writes about the harrowing year following the storm over her book, ‘Borderlife’
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- The Azariya test – The conviction is shaking up the country: 58% of the country believe the Chief of Staff and IDF top brass are disconnected from the soldiers in the field; 60% believe that Elor Azariya’s conviction will negatively affect the motivation to join combat units; 70% believe the trust of the public in the IDF was harmed; 75% support giving a pardon
- Integrating into the space // Ben Caspit
- Crack in the trust in the army // Uri Bar-Lev
- The wall of morality // Avi Benayahu
- Victory of B’Tselem // Caroline Glick
- In the land of the incited people // Lilach Sigan
- Judgment without justice // Prof. Arieh Eldad
- No man’s land // Kalman Libeskind
- The tragic hero // Alon Ben-David
- An apology (from Azariya) is preferable to an appeal // Noam Amir
- Instead of leading // Udi Segal
- Boiling Point - How can we expect a fighter to control his anger // Sarah Beck
- Feast of the victim // Ron Kaufman
- The cigars affair – Prime Minister suspected of receiving hundreds of thousands of shekels worth of cigars from his friend, businessman Arnon Milchin
- The suspect in the Haifa shooting turned himself in to police
- Hole in the net – Why did the Chief of Staff cancel his decision to establish a cyber arm in the IDF? // Yossi Melman
- 40 years since the shot that announced the fall of the Maarach party (Labor) and the upheaval (in which Likud took over)
- Moshe Yaalon and Yair Lapid met yesterday; Their associates: They meet regularly
Israel Hayom
- Police to interrogate those inciting against the IDF; Chief Justice: “The tirade against the Azariya judges – danger to democracy”
- Suspect in murder in Haifa turned himself in to police
- Sever indictment against MK Ghattas
- Netanyahu questioned at his residence for second time
- Attack thwarted in Beersheva: Young Bedouin grabbed gun from guard, escaped – and was arrested
- Song for Hallel – Rina Ariel marks the 14th birthday of Hallel, who was murdered in her sleep by a terrorist
- The conviction and the shake-up – The Azariya affair turned into a bone of contention in Israeli society
News Summary:
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu underwent another five hours of questioning by police on suspicion of receiving gifts and in another case which has yet to be revealed (and the largest petition to the High Court in Israel’s history – with over 19,000 signatures - calls to open a criminal investigation against Netanyahu and to reveal the charges for which he was questioned) and the continued fallout over the conviction of Sgt. Elor Azariya of manslaughter – the disbelief and anger in Israeli society, the polls that reveal a resulting lack of faith in the IDF, the incitement against the military judges, IDF top brass and even MK Erel Margalit (Labor), who said he opposed a pardon for Azariya (Maariv), and the warning from the Chief Justice that these attacks on judges endangered Israeli democracy
– made the top stories in today’s Friday Hebrew newspapers.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu underwent another five hours of questioning by police on suspicion of receiving gifts and in another case which has yet to be revealed (and the largest petition to the High Court in Israel’s history – with over 19,000 signatures - calls to open a criminal investigation against Netanyahu and to reveal the charges for which he was questioned) and the continued fallout over the conviction of Sgt. Elor Azariya of manslaughter – the disbelief and anger in Israeli society, the polls that reveal a resulting lack of faith in the IDF, the incitement against the military judges, IDF top brass and even MK Erel Margalit (Labor), who said he opposed a pardon for Azariya (Maariv), and the warning from the Chief Justice that these attacks on judges endangered Israeli democracy
– made the top stories in today’s Friday Hebrew newspapers.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.