APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 28, 2017
Quote of the day:
"In Amman, King Abdullah sat and boiled. But Netanyahu wasn’t content with just the photo with the
security guard. He also Tweeted, in Hebrew and in Arabic. He didn’t just poke his most important ally in the
Middle East a finger in the eye, he also punched a fist in his stomach.”
-Senior Maariv political commentator, Ben Caspit, writes about Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's warm embrace of the Israeli security guard who killed two Jordanians, one who allegedly attacked the guard.*
Front Page:
-Senior Maariv political commentator, Ben Caspit, writes about Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's warm embrace of the Israeli security guard who killed two Jordanians, one who allegedly attacked the guard.*
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Clashes on Temple Mount; Netanyahu calls to transfer Arab-Israeli villages in Wadi Ara (to the Palestinian Authority) and to execute the terrorist from Halamish
- King of Jordan: Netanyahu took advantage of the crisis for his political capital, the security guard must stand trial
- The Likud is distancing itself from Netanyahu // Yossi Verter
- The fear: Lone-wolf attacks // Amos Harel
- Likud and Kulanu parties agree: Legislative bills in dispute won’t be advanced in the winter session of Knesset in order to avoid early elections
- Testimonies from the underworld
- Researchers recommend not taking antibiotics after improvement of health
- Budget of the Administration for Teaching Jewish Identity is growing and growing
- The disturbing reality of women in the Israeli hi-tech industry
- The stories of the women from Russia for whom love brought them to Gaza
Yedioth Ahronoth
- The protest of the Shin Bet heads
- Highest alert (at Temple Mount)
- Crisis with Jordan: King in unprecedented attack on Prime Minister
- Week of anger // Nahum Barnea
- Echoing failure // Alex Fishman
- Price of giving in // Yoaz Hendel
- When the king is furious // Smadar Perry
- The alliance of the moderates // Ben-Dror Yemini
- Netanyahu adopts Lieberman’s land exchange plan
- Soul searching – Isaac Herzog in a personal interview: the loss in the primaries, the negotiations with Netanyahu and the “House of Cards”
- Days of Shifra – Shifra Cornfeld on her childhood in an ultra-Orthodox family, serving in the Border Police, “Brother reality show, and life with her husband, the father of ‘Eretz Nehederet’ satire show
Maariv Weekend
- “This is only the beginning” – Political sources confirm what the police commissioner said: Netanyahu initiated the placement of metal detectors (on the Temple Mount)
- King Abdullah to Netanyahu: Put on trial the security guard who shot dead two people
- Who here is the king // Ben Caspit
- Cobwebs // Kalman Libeskind
- Bear hug // Avi Benayahu
- On the knees // Alon Ben-David
- Presents you give to enemies // Jacky Khougy
- Our Jihad // Ran Adelist
- The dogs and the convoy // Prof. Arieh Eldad
- The face of hatred // Sarah Beck
- Netanyahu: “The time has come for the death sentence for terrorists”
- “We chose life and hope” – Six days after the attack, the Salomon family celebrated the brit of their grandson
- Sunday: The decision in the Elor Azaria (appeal) case
- Expose: two women in the life of state witness (in the submarines scandal) Miki Ganor
Israel Hayom
- Riots on the Temple Mount” “They better not try us” – Highest vigilance: 3,000 police will guard Jerusalem
- To fight over the truth // Nadav Shragai
- Opportunity to fix the wind // Dror Eydar
- Anger over the ‘Funeral of hatred” in Um al-Fahem
- They chose life – (Six days after the attack, the Salomon family celebrated the brit of their grandson)
- Exclusive: The strange late-night tour of IDF Manpower chief – Despite the renovation of the IDF drafting center, which cost millions, Gen. Almoz urgently looked for a “temporary drafting center”
- Exclusive: On the way – Revocation of tax benefits from those who donate to Amnesty
- Mother beats, father is guilty – This is how the social welfare authorities protect divorced mothers who harm their children and allow them to keep them
- Eldad Report – Temple Mount, the corruption and the racism: Arieh Eldad shoots in all directions
- International – How did the model Noam Frost get accepted to Rihanna’s new film
- The rock of our existence: Temple Mount events raised new questions about identity and sovereignty
News Summary:
Israel is on high alert in E. Jerusalem ahead of Friday Muslim prayers after over 100 Muslim worshipers were injured in clashes with Israeli Border Police at the Temple Mount an hour after Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti determined it was okay to resume prayer at the holy site following Israel’s removal of all the security equipment it had installed and Jordan’s King Abdullah is furious with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s warm welcome of the embassy security guard who shot dead two Jordanians and the country won’t allow Israel’s ambassador to Jordan to return until the guard is put on trial, which Jordan vows to do in international courts, if Israel doesn’t making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
Meanwhile, as Netanyahu’s popularity drops within his party and among his constituents over the removal of the metal detectors at the Temple Mount, (and two of his strongest supporters, coalition whip MK David Bitan and Culture Minister Miri Regev both slammed the Shin Bet for ‘conducting itself with cowardice’), he yesterday called to execute the Palestinian terrorist who murdered three Israelis at Halamish West Bank settlement, advanced a ‘Greater Jerusalem’ bill to expand the capital to include Maaleh Adumim and Gush Etzion, and reportedly adopted Avigdor Lieberman’s controversial plan to move Israeli-Arab communities to Palestinian Authority control in exchange for annexation of West Bank settlements in a final peace settlement.
One of those communities is the large Arab city of Um al-Fahm, the hometown of the three young men who killed two Israeli policemen at the Temple Mount on July 14th, sparking the Temple Mount crisis. The Israeli papers reported that their funeral held last night was “demonstration of hatred” by thousands who waved Palestinian flags and shouted “In spirit and blood we will redeem Al-Aqsa” and similarly for the ‘martyrs’ being buried. Um al-Fahem is known for its strong opposition to an Israeli presence at the Temple Mount and the hawkish Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement is based in the city, where its leader Sheikh Raed Salah lives.
*Reactions to Netanyahu’s Conduct in the Crisis with Jordan over the Killings by an Israeli Embassy Security Guard:
Ben Caspit in Maariv:
“King Abdullah released the security guard without making any problems and in exchange he got a public hazing from Netanyahu. After making this week all the mistakes possible, the Prime Minister can still list one achievement for himself: He succeeded in reconciling between Abu Mazen and Hamas…In Amman, King Abdullah sat and boiled. But Netanyahu wasn’t content with just the photo with the security guard. He also Tweeted, in Hebrew and in Arabic. He didn’t just poke his most important ally in the Middle East a finger in the eye, he also punched a fist in his stomach.”
Jordanian journalist tells Yedioth reporter Smadar Perry in Amman:
“You got yourselves in deep trouble. After you killed the unarmed youth [who allegedly stabbed or tried to stab the Israeli security guard –OH] and a man who was friendly to Israelis [the Jordanian landlord – OH], and then turned the guard-murderer into a hero, who will agree to do business with you?”
Avi Benayahu in Maariv:
“Netanyahu should have secretly hugged the Shin Bet head instead of doing a selfie with the security guard.”
Israel is on high alert in E. Jerusalem ahead of Friday Muslim prayers after over 100 Muslim worshipers were injured in clashes with Israeli Border Police at the Temple Mount an hour after Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti determined it was okay to resume prayer at the holy site following Israel’s removal of all the security equipment it had installed and Jordan’s King Abdullah is furious with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s warm welcome of the embassy security guard who shot dead two Jordanians and the country won’t allow Israel’s ambassador to Jordan to return until the guard is put on trial, which Jordan vows to do in international courts, if Israel doesn’t making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
Meanwhile, as Netanyahu’s popularity drops within his party and among his constituents over the removal of the metal detectors at the Temple Mount, (and two of his strongest supporters, coalition whip MK David Bitan and Culture Minister Miri Regev both slammed the Shin Bet for ‘conducting itself with cowardice’), he yesterday called to execute the Palestinian terrorist who murdered three Israelis at Halamish West Bank settlement, advanced a ‘Greater Jerusalem’ bill to expand the capital to include Maaleh Adumim and Gush Etzion, and reportedly adopted Avigdor Lieberman’s controversial plan to move Israeli-Arab communities to Palestinian Authority control in exchange for annexation of West Bank settlements in a final peace settlement.
One of those communities is the large Arab city of Um al-Fahm, the hometown of the three young men who killed two Israeli policemen at the Temple Mount on July 14th, sparking the Temple Mount crisis. The Israeli papers reported that their funeral held last night was “demonstration of hatred” by thousands who waved Palestinian flags and shouted “In spirit and blood we will redeem Al-Aqsa” and similarly for the ‘martyrs’ being buried. Um al-Fahem is known for its strong opposition to an Israeli presence at the Temple Mount and the hawkish Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement is based in the city, where its leader Sheikh Raed Salah lives.
*Reactions to Netanyahu’s Conduct in the Crisis with Jordan over the Killings by an Israeli Embassy Security Guard:
Ben Caspit in Maariv:
“King Abdullah released the security guard without making any problems and in exchange he got a public hazing from Netanyahu. After making this week all the mistakes possible, the Prime Minister can still list one achievement for himself: He succeeded in reconciling between Abu Mazen and Hamas…In Amman, King Abdullah sat and boiled. But Netanyahu wasn’t content with just the photo with the security guard. He also Tweeted, in Hebrew and in Arabic. He didn’t just poke his most important ally in the Middle East a finger in the eye, he also punched a fist in his stomach.”
Jordanian journalist tells Yedioth reporter Smadar Perry in Amman:
“You got yourselves in deep trouble. After you killed the unarmed youth [who allegedly stabbed or tried to stab the Israeli security guard –OH] and a man who was friendly to Israelis [the Jordanian landlord – OH], and then turned the guard-murderer into a hero, who will agree to do business with you?”
Avi Benayahu in Maariv:
“Netanyahu should have secretly hugged the Shin Bet head instead of doing a selfie with the security guard.”
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.