APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday July 9, 2017
Note: Due to technical difficulties, News Nosh is in a shorter format
today.
You Must Be Kidding:
A far-right Israeli extremist was released from house arrest after his grandmother kicked him out. No one checked with her before issuing the order of where he would be placed.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- IDF Chief of Staff Eisenkot warns of foreign intervention in elections in Israel
- US and Russia announced ceasefire in Syrian Golan
- Trump’s heart is in the East and he is in the West // Chemi Shalev
- Meeting of interests // Zvi Bar’el
- Tomorrow decisive day for Labor Party: Herzog and Margalit support Peretz, Cabel and Shaffir support Gabai
- Jewish Nation State Law being formulated won’t define Israel as ‘Jewish and democratic”
- Talks over a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas with mediation by Egypt and Dahlan
- UNESCO: Cave of the Patriarchs is a Palestinian heritage site in danger
- Israel calls on Hungarian Prime Minister to nix election flyers against Jewish tycoon
- The dawn comes from the East // Iris Leal
- There’s air-condition in the mosque // Amira Hass
Yedioth Ahronoth
- The Cave of the Patriarchs (in Hebron) storm - The Arab ambassador voted against Israel and sent a message: Sorry
- Labor and family – Tomorrow the second and decisive round of the vote for the head of the Labor party (Photos: Each of the two candidates in a photo with a son)
- Hamas demands: 53 terrorists in exchange for information
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- “The discussions over deal of the captured ended without results”
- The road is still long // Yossi Melman
- Anger in Jerusalem over UNESCO decision to recognize Cave of the Patriarchs as a Palestinian heritage site
- The recruits of (Labor party leadership finalists) Peretz and Gabai
- End to the (spilling of fighting)? Putin to Maariv: Ceasefire in southern Syria is good for Israel
- Chief Justice of High Court and Justice Minister will stand today before Knesset Legislation Committee and discuss the ‘seniority’ method
Israel Hayom
- The ignorance and the absurd of UNESCO // Nadav Shragai
- Condemnations in Israel over UNESCO resolution; PM: Cut the support to the organization
- Report: “Progress in the deal with Hamas”
- New Israel Fund supported the (jailed former MK) Ghattas’ ‘celebration’
- ‘A star is born’ in the classroom: Reform in assessment of teachers
- Primaries in Labor Party: Herzog supports Peretz; Final round is tomorrow
News Summary:
A US-Russia announcement of a ceasefire in the Syrian Golan, a report about talks between Israel and Hamas over a prisoner exchange, and Israeli fury over a UNESCO resolution declaring the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron a Palestinian heritage site - and in danger [Note: It seems Israel has forgotten that the site holy to Jews and Muslims is not in Israel. - OH] making top stories in today's Hebrew newspapers. Also in the news, US President Donald Trump's special envoy to the Mideast peace process, Jason Greenblatt, will arrive in Israel Monday, making his sixth visit to the region in six months and, for the 32nd week in a row, hundreds of Israelis protested near the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, decrying his slow conduct in the investigations of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
A US-Russia announcement of a ceasefire in the Syrian Golan, a report about talks between Israel and Hamas over a prisoner exchange, and Israeli fury over a UNESCO resolution declaring the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron a Palestinian heritage site - and in danger [Note: It seems Israel has forgotten that the site holy to Jews and Muslims is not in Israel. - OH] making top stories in today's Hebrew newspapers. Also in the news, US President Donald Trump's special envoy to the Mideast peace process, Jason Greenblatt, will arrive in Israel Monday, making his sixth visit to the region in six months and, for the 32nd week in a row, hundreds of Israelis protested near the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, decrying his slow conduct in the investigations of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.