APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday June 9, 2017
You Must Be
Kidding:
400 Likud members, including politicians, celebrated the launch of a book with no footnotes or sources written by right-wing professor of Islam, Raphael Israeli, which referred to Israeli Arabs as a fifth column and objected to the fact that Israeli Arabs "are not confined in camps,” like the Japanese-Americans during World War II.
400 Likud members, including politicians, celebrated the launch of a book with no footnotes or sources written by right-wing professor of Islam, Raphael Israeli, which referred to Israeli Arabs as a fifth column and objected to the fact that Israeli Arabs "are not confined in camps,” like the Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Polls from Britain: May lost control of the Parliament
- Comey testified at the Senate: Trump tried to sabotage the investigation on the connection with Russia
- 50 to ’67: The settlement enterprise – A snapshot: 380,000 settlers live in the Territories; 30% are ultra-Orthodox, 44% live outside the settlement blocs, 56% is their growth since 2005
- Abbas to Israel Peace Conference: We cannot miss the opportunity that Trump is presenting
- State to pay religious couples who host secular people for Sabbath dinners and teach Judaism
- The Prime Minister’s Residence affair – Seidoff (man who was suspended from his job) sitting at home for two years – and receiving full salary
- Senior members of Likud celebrated publishing of book that calls Arabs ‘parasites’
- The Israeli time would be getting yellower even without the occupation // Doron Rosenblum
- Exposed on the barrel is the best book written about the IDF // Aluf Benn
- From Cicero to Netanyahu: the rhetoric in the service of democracy – a story by Leonid Pakrovsky
- (Tycoon) Fishman cost us 2 billion shekels. The damage of Fishmanism can’t be measured // Guy Rolnik
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Comey: “Trump administration lies”
- Comey’s revenge // Nahum Barnea
- This is the teacher suspected of touching schoolgirls
- Theresa May’s small victory
- “We the artists say aloud: Stop. Don’t intervene anymore in our content”
- Expose – Bennett’s ethical code toward universities
- The golden cage – Yedioth correspondent, Orly Azoulay, reports from Qatar under siege
- The milky way – The moving story about the Israeli nurse who nursed a Palestinian baby whose mother was seriously injured
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- Comey: The US President lied; Trump: We are under siege
- Abu Mazen: “Freezing construction is not a condition for negotiations”
- The (British) kingdom votedEvidentiary evidence against the “pedophile teacher”
- In the name of credit: The secrets of the nukes were kept until “Yatza” decided to enter the history books // Yossi Melman
- NATO family: When the focus is on terror, Israel enjoys unprecedented attention in the halls of the organization // Tal Schneider
- The battle over space: International jurists began to formulate the laws for combat outside the atmosphere
- The fighter against Zionism: The life story of the leader of the mythological Neturei Karta
- The ceremony rules: The deals, the discrimination, and the politics of the Israel Prize
Israel Hayom
- Abu Mazen gave up on the freeze as a condition for negotiations
- In the shadow of terror: Britain voted
- The teacher suspected of pedophilia: Shaul Shamai
- Former head of FBI, James Comey, in a dramatic Senate committee: “Trump lied” ; President: “We are under siege, we will get out of this stronger”
- Concern in the Arab League: Israel getting closer to Africa
- US: Hezbollah planned to attack Israeli embassies in the US and Panama
- An officer and a gentleman – Salaam Khourani, a Muslim from Tzfat, breaks all preconceived ideas on the way to becoming an IDF company commander
- Qatar will be forced to choose: Continue funding terror or stop the double game // Nadav Shragai, Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror
News Summary:
Foreign figures were top news in today’s Hebrew newspapers. Former FBI director James Comey said US President Donald Trump lied, British Prime Minister Theresa May appeared to have lost the Conservative majority in Parliament and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly said he would give up his condition for a settlement construction freeze in order to advance peace negotiations.
Also in the news, right-wing activists slashed the tires of nine vehicles and spray-painted the slogans "Kahane was right" and "price-tag" in the E. Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa (photos in Maariv). This was the second incident of suspected hate crime in the neighborhood this week, Haaretz reported, noting that on Tuesday, some 14 gravestones in the local cemetery were smashed. Police said that the two cases were unrelated.
And, the US arrested two Hezbollah members allegedly planning attacks on Israeli embassies and Israel's Shin Bet arrested two Israeli-Arab brothers from Jaljulya, who allegedly plotted to kill an IDF soldier in retaliation for the killing of top Hamas military commander, Mazen Fuqha.