APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday June 23, 2017
Quote of the day:
"Woe unto us if the State of Israel is defined entirely as 'the State of the will of the people.' Woe unto
us if the Israel Defense Forces becomes the 'army of the will of the people'; if the High Court rules its laws
according to the 'Constitution of the People's Will', if we replace the Knesset with a referendum."
--Speaking at the 2017 Herzliya Conference, President Reuven Rivln warned that Israel is moving towards anarchy.*
--Speaking at the 2017 Herzliya Conference, President Reuven Rivln warned that Israel is moving towards anarchy.*
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Three years since Operation Protective Edge, IDF still debating whether to investigate ‘Black Friday’ in Rafah
- ‘Im Tirtzu’ (far right-wing NGO) received millions from a US organization with connections to Netanyahu
- Netanyahu to advance construction of 300 housing units in Beit El
- For the IDF, a village in the West Bank is just another training field
- In the ‘80’s, Kadisha (burial) company covered hundreds of graves at cemetery – some of them belonging to Yemenite children who disappeared
- When the gatekeepers are no longer collaborators, the shake up at Bezeq is an expected cliché // Guy Rolnik
- In an exceptional move, chapters of Olmert’s book were transferred to the Mossad
- Police copied the email box of the CEO of the publishing house
- Seven in one room: State preventing family from receiving apartment because it didn’t know its rights
- Interior Minister Deri and Health Minister Leitzman advancing bill against private conversions, Lieberman opposes
- Thanks to pension documents, the 23 Palmach fighters ‘Yordei Hasira’ (who disappeared) were recognized as British soldiers
- What did Amos Oz miss in his book “Judas”
- The first time a man raped me, the second time it was the State // Name withheld by editor
Yedioth Ahronoth
- “We want to fight the cancer, not the bureaucracy”
- (Public Security Minister) Erdan: The raid on ‘Yedioth Books’ is worrying and far-reaching
- Chinese torture // Nahum Barnea on the slow changes to Israel: more religious, more politicized judicial system
- Poetic prisoner // Sima Kadmon on how the country’s ‘gatekeepers’ are turning into servants of the rulers
- Next week: Heavy heat
- The Elovitch affair: Bezeq CEO was interrogated
- She’s in our hands – Britney Spears interview to Yedioth
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- The admonition speech – President Reuven Rivlin expressed fear of anarchy and worry that the IDF, High Court and Knesset would be harmed
- Barak: “Netanyahu is prepared to endanger the state in order to keep his chair”; Likud: “He sounds like a broken record”
- An Israeli resident crossed the northern border and turned himself over to the Lebanese Army
- The handicapped: Rejected the Knesset offer (as did Netanyahu)
- In memory of Hadar and Hadas (two Border Police soldiers killed in Jerusalem) – Hundreds participated in candle-lighting ceremony in their memory
- The dispute at Hadassah Hospital: The battle continues and there is no solution in the horizon
- Qalqilya first: The dirty deal // Ben Caspit; The architects of the absurd // Kalman Libeskind; Building on the right-wing // Udi Segal; The edge of the iceberg // Nadav Haetzni
- Since then and always – Maariv correspondent joined ‘Breaking the Silence’ and ‘Im Tirtzu’ tours
- Spy games: A decade since his death, the mysterious case of Ashraf Marwan was opened
News Summary:
*President Reuven Rivlin warned of anarchy in Israeli society, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said the police raid on ‘Yedioth Books’ publishing house was “very worrying,” IDF Intel chief Gen. Hertzi Halevi said a war with Hezbollah was a greater threat to Israel than an operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and all the papers were concerned about the crisis between doctors and management at Hadassah Hospital making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.