APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, August 4, 2017
You Must Be Kidding #1:
Israel is forcing a Palestinian family to leave their
home where they have lived 53 years in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah
neighborhood. The home was registered as owned by a Jewish family before the '48 war and a settler
organization battled in court in the Jewish owners' name to reclaim the property. However, Israel
does not allow Palestinians to take back the properties in W. Jerusalem (and elsewhere) that Jews
moved into after the '48 war.
You Must Be Kidding #2:
"If anyone wants to swim with Arabs, let him take them home. Here there's no place for it."
--Thus said a resident of Kochav Yair-Tzur Yigal, where the upscale Israeli country club has changed membership rules to prevent Arabs, who were 3% of the members, from being members anymore.
Front Page:
You Must Be Kidding #2:
"If anyone wants to swim with Arabs, let him take them home. Here there's no place for it."
--Thus said a resident of Kochav Yair-Tzur Yigal, where the upscale Israeli country club has changed membership rules to prevent Arabs, who were 3% of the members, from being members anymore.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Police: Netanyahu suspected of bribery and fraud
- The turning point // Yossi Verter
- Stocks crashing: Teva Pharmaceuticals lost a quarter of its worth
- Deputy mayor arrested on suspicion of involvement in murder that happened 18 years ago
- High Court said same-sex surrogacy law discriminatory, but did not rule on appeal
- At Kochav Yair (community) they found a way to prevent Arabs from entering the pool
- The probe into the suspicion of sex crimes by Tzion Keinan (former CEO of Bank Hapoalim) was closed without him being interrogated
- Tourism potential in Tiberias was buried alongside the neglected ancient ruins
- Why do we pay so much for cosmetics?
- Not a man and not a woman. Meet the people who live without a gender
- Who is the monster person threatening Baghdad
- Memories from the Jerusalem bedroom of Elizabeth Taylor
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Bribery, fraud and breach of trust - Police: These are the suspicions in the Netanyahu cases (Hebrew)
- The storm is getting closer // Nahum Barnes
- A new game // Sima Kadmon
- The next in line // Yoav Hendel
- The shaking chair // Ben-Dror Yemini
- Elor (Azaria’s) performance
- The (military) prosecutor’s version - Special: After he won in the loaded file of the country, Adv. Nadav Weisman speaks about the stormy months: “You hear the shouts of ‘traitor’ - and you continue to battle
- Jerusalem of Pride - 25,000 LGBTs and straights, religious and secular, participated in the Gay Pride Parade
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Police: Netanyahu suspected of bribery
- No longer a fantasy // Ben Caspit
- Exaggerated drama // Adv. Yechiel Gutman
- Remembering in pride - White flowers in area where two years ago, the girl, Shira Banki, was murdered at the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem
- Azaria: I will go to jail with my head up
- The IDF’s lessons // Avi Benayahu
- Eisenkot’s trick // Yossi Melman
- “Only the public will judge me” - MK David Bitan (Likud) responds to Ben Caspit
- “The era of excellent relations with Turkey are over” // Guest column by MK Yair Lapid
- Jaffa is burning again - For second time this week: Stone-throwing, burning trash cans and violent clashes between Arab residents and the police
- For the bomb shelters: Dov Tamari in an sharp indictment over the abandonment of the Israeli home front
- 101 vs. 1: The legendary combat soldier, Katcha, in a frontal battle over Elor Azaria
Israel Hayom
- Teva Pharmaceuticals crashing
- Police: Suspicion of bribery in Cases 1000 and 2000
- (Elor Azaria) accepted the judgment
- 20 teachers sexually harmed pupils
- 22,000 participated in Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade; (Jewish) suspect caught with a knife
- Venezuela is burning - How the rich country turned into a source of terror, crime and anti-Semitism - and why Jews aren’t leaving
News Summary:
By far, the biggest story of the Friday Hebrew newspapers was that the Israel police told the court that Netanyahu is suspected of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in Cases 1000 and 2000. Three of the main papers had a photo of Netanyahu splashed across the front page. Unsurprisingly, Israel Hayom mentioned the news in a small front page article without naming Netanyahu in the headline and without a photo. The commentators believe that this time, Netanyahu is really in trouble. Also high in the news, the Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter for executing an incapacitated Palestinian assailant in Hebron last year, Elor Azaria, asked the IDF chief of staff to exchange his 18-month prison sentence with community service, but didn’t express regret for his actions, and he gave a Facebook live video statement saying he would enter jail ‘with his head up’ (Maariv), Teva Pharmaceuticals' stocks are crashing, and over 20,000 gay and straight and religious and secular people attended the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, also marking the murder of Shira Banki there two years earlier in the hands of a religious Jewish extremist, marking top stories in the Hebrew Friday papers.
Also, Jordan's King Abdullah will travel to Ramallah on Monday to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the recent events on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and political developments because Abbas, who is refusing contact with Israel, cannot coordinate his exit from the West Bank.
By far, the biggest story of the Friday Hebrew newspapers was that the Israel police told the court that Netanyahu is suspected of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in Cases 1000 and 2000. Three of the main papers had a photo of Netanyahu splashed across the front page. Unsurprisingly, Israel Hayom mentioned the news in a small front page article without naming Netanyahu in the headline and without a photo. The commentators believe that this time, Netanyahu is really in trouble. Also high in the news, the Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter for executing an incapacitated Palestinian assailant in Hebron last year, Elor Azaria, asked the IDF chief of staff to exchange his 18-month prison sentence with community service, but didn’t express regret for his actions, and he gave a Facebook live video statement saying he would enter jail ‘with his head up’ (Maariv), Teva Pharmaceuticals' stocks are crashing, and over 20,000 gay and straight and religious and secular people attended the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, also marking the murder of Shira Banki there two years earlier in the hands of a religious Jewish extremist, marking top stories in the Hebrew Friday papers.
Also, Jordan's King Abdullah will travel to Ramallah on Monday to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the recent events on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and political developments because Abbas, who is refusing contact with Israel, cannot coordinate his exit from the West Bank.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.