APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday, March 3, 2017
Quote of the Day #1:
“…Once we used the Jewish National Fund to raise money to buy the lands. Today? We just pass a law
saying we can just take their lands and that’s it. Soldiers shoot at stone-throwers because they’re a real
threat, but if in Israel someone throws stones they won’t even be charged…for years we’ve been deepening
the hatred, the same hatred that we later complain about in peace talks, ‘Why do you incite your
children against us? Why don’t you teach them to love us?’ Israel’s most impressive innovation, more than
any hi-tech project, or Rafael weapon, is our amazing ability to ignore what is happening mere kilometers
away to our neighbors. A whole people, transparent. Like it doesn’t exist. Not in the news. Not online. Not
in social media. And definitely not in the hearts of the people. Nothing. We’ve got a great country and
great restaurants and it’s fun to travel abroad. Just don’t tell us what’s really happening. We’re good.
Don’t bum us out…"
-- In his last show, Israeli political comedy show host, Asaf Harel, made a searing indictment of Israeli society that has gone viral on social media.
-- In his last show, Israeli political comedy show host, Asaf Harel, made a searing indictment of Israeli society that has gone viral on social media.
Quote of the Day #2:
Could there be a Law of Return and a right of return [of Palestinian refugees from 1948 and
their descendants]?
"The country would be open to all Jews and Palestinians from everywhere in the world. There would be equality in entering the country and in returning for all citizens – Jews and Arabs. The Law of Return embodies the state’s Jewishness, which I do not accept.”
--In an interview with Haaretz+, Knesset Member Ahmad Tibi lays out his vision for the one-state solution and prepares to become everyone’s prime minister. Worth the watch.
"The country would be open to all Jews and Palestinians from everywhere in the world. There would be equality in entering the country and in returning for all citizens – Jews and Arabs. The Law of Return embodies the state’s Jewishness, which I do not accept.”
--In an interview with Haaretz+, Knesset Member Ahmad Tibi lays out his vision for the one-state solution and prepares to become everyone’s prime minister. Worth the watch.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Desperation in Gaza and the change in Hamas leadership are bringing the next conflict closer // Amos Harel
- [Main photo: Old man carries child through waters flooding makeshift huts in Gaza]
- The badge of honor that the State Comptroller gave to Minister Bennett is likely to signal his path out of the government // Yossi Verter
- State Comptroller prefers to deal with giving out citations rather than with the failure: Lack of policy // Amir Oren
- There are officers who know to whom they are really subordinate: the security officers of the settlements // Amira Hass
- Taysir Sanduka lost one eye from the blow of a baton. The sponged-tipped bullet pulled out his other one
- Developments in the affair of the connection with Russia sharpen the similarity between Trump and Nixon // Chemi Shalev
- Agreement to vacate Lifta could be good news for the ‘tresspassers’
- Photographer David Rubinger, Israel Prize laureate, died at age 92
- At Kibbutz Shaar Hagolan they want to speak about heroism and not about how they abandoned the kibbutz when attacked by the Syrian Army in 1948
- Ahmed Tibi prepares to be the Prime Minister of everyone
- Who needs to be afraid of the biometric database law that was approved this week
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Labor party pulling one over on them – The slanderous recording
- MK Omer Bar-Lev joins the race for the leadership of the Labor party
- The photographer of the country – David Rubinger 1924-2017
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- In the front against Israel: Lebanese Army will connect with Hezbollah during the conflict
- The Labor party deal: Despite the denials of an agreement between Shelly Yachimovich and Eitan Cabel, recordings revealed that Cabel admitted to it
- Hamas: Attack for attack – In the wake of the launching of the rocket, the shooting at a military force and the Israeli response, activists in the terror organization call for escalating the situation
- Steinitz: “Those who opposed the gas agreement should apologize”
- Within a week: Bank of Israel purchased $1 billion
- Parting from the photographer who immortalized history
- Speaking from the field: The new and surprising candidate for the head of the Labor party
- Sharp interview: What does Ami Ayalon think about Yair Lapid and Binyamin Netanyahu
- The queen mother: 100th birthday celebrations of Ruth Dayan, the woman and the legend
Israel Hayom
- The Deal: Yachimovich heads Histadrut, Cabel for the head of the Labor party
- The photographs of our life – Legendary photographer David Rubinger died
- Tension in the south: Fire next to the (Gaza Strip) fence
- The ultra-Orthodox young women who broke the conventions and joined the police as investigators
- The tunnels report: Between Operation Protective Edge and the dangers of another conflict in Gaza
- Elor Azaria won’t enter jail on Sunday; Will remain in the meantime in open arrest
- Trump: “I have full trust in the Attorney General Sessions,” who announced “I suspend myself from investigations into the campaign”
News Summary:
A secret deal between two top Labor party politicians over leading the party and the national labor union, the Israeli concern that the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip could lead to another war and the Hamas warning that it will respond in kind to every Israeli attack and the death of famed Israeli photographer David Rubinger were the top stories in today's Hebrew newspapers.
A secret deal between two top Labor party politicians over leading the party and the national labor union, the Israeli concern that the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip could lead to another war and the Hamas warning that it will respond in kind to every Israeli attack and the death of famed Israeli photographer David Rubinger were the top stories in today's Hebrew newspapers.