News Nosh: 7.20.18

by APN 07/20/18
Share

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, July 20, 2018

Quote of the day:
"This law is the mark of Cain on everyone who voted for it," said Shanan, who explained: "We have been raised and educated about belonging to and love for the State of Israel, and I recognize that the State of Israel is the state of the Jewish people and the state of all its citizens. This law can create a situation in which, tomorrow, a person rises up and takes control of it by democratic means, and takes advantage of the law so that Muslim, Druze and Christian citizens not only can’t be second-class citizens, but they also can’t be citizens at all."
—Former Druze MK Shakib Shanan, the father of Border Policeman Kamil, who was murdered by a Palestinian on the Temple Mount last year, reacted to the Nation-State law passed yesterday. (Maariv)

Front Page:
Haaretz
Yedioth Ahronoth
  • The nation and the law [Photo of the iconic selfie of Likud legislators after the vote on the Nation-State law] - The controversial nation-state law passed in the Knesset; Discrimination against the LGBT community in the surrogacy law leads to an enormous protest that has the support of large companies; A Conservative rabbi was arrested from his house and interrogated because he officiated the marriage of couples outside the Rabbinate institution. Israel, July 2018
  • War of freedom // Nahum Barnea writes that the danger of the problematic laws is the MAGEMA
  • Black flag // Sima Kadmon writes that Netanyahu wants the right-wing to remember him for the nation-state law
  • Why I am going on strike // Itai Segal protests on the law that prevents LGBT parents from using surrogacy to become parents
  • Under the sky // Daniella London Dekel writes that there is nothing new in the law, the discrimination against Arab Israelis is apparent in any Arab village
  • We can see yours // Einav Schiff on the iconic selfie of Likud legislators after the vote on the Nation-State law
  • Right to fatherhood // (Religious right-wing commentator) Yoaz Hendel writes that the right to surrogacy is the LGBT community’s most justified battle
  • Unity Ltd. // Sivan Rahav Meir asks how it’s possible to legislate a nation-state law for a nation that is so divided?
  • Everything is in extremes // Ben-Dror Yemini says its good the clause allowing Jews-only communities was changed [NOTE: The change, however, still says that the state encourages the establishment of Jews-only communities - OH]
  • Shira’s legacy // Uri Banki, father of Shira, writes that the extremism is what led to his daughter’s murder (by a religious man when she was at the Gay Pride Parade), and that a variety of different views is an essential characteristic of a democratic society
  • Anchoring our right // Shlomo Pyotrokovsky writes that this is a defining moment in the history of the State of Israel
  • (Religious) Mother of 10 children from Jerusalem arrested for allegedly needlesssly injecting insulin into five of her children, one is in critical condition
  • Tomorrow evening: Fast of Tet B’Av begins
  • We accuse - Parents of the youth who were killed in the flood in Tzafit River give an joint aching and angry interview
Maariv Weeke d (Hebrew links only)
  • Expose - Envelopes of money, shady deals, bribes from contractors, close acquaintance with criminals, problematic acceptance of donations and even crimes of violence - What really hides behind the “Yitzhaki Document,” that centralizes immense information on some 40 MKs and about half the serving ministers. Almost no Investigations were opened, by the way // Kalman Libeskind
  • Between calm and burning - Drizzle of shooting continued amid the reports on understanding reached between Israel and Hamas that would prevent the next round (of war)
  • The “left-winger” from the IDF Headquarters // Ben Caspit on how IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot once again found himself in the position of the ‘left-winger’
  • http://www.maariv.co.il/journalists/Article-652214
  • On a slippery slope // Avi Benayahu writes that Netanyahu is saving his own skin at the expense of the state
  • http://www.maariv.co.il/journalists/Article-652216
  • The war maker // Alon Ben-David writes that whoever leaked the argument between IDF Chief of Staff Eisenkot and Haybayit Hayehudi Chairman Bennett made the next war with Gaza closer
  • The champions of defeat // Attorney Yoram Sheftel
  • The true results // Ran Adelist
  • No way out // Brig. Gen. Eli Ben-Meir writes that despite the suggestions of a occupying Gaza, a long-term ceasefire with Hamas or rehabilitating Gaza there may be no solution
  • Stop firing // Yossi Melman
  • Hamas trick // Jacky Khougy
  • Horrifying: They injected insulin into their children in order to defraud National Insurance Company
  • The commercial sector supports the LGBT community (against the surrogacy law that excludes the LGBTs)
  • The storm over the rabbi
  • No entry: Why doesn’t the state bring the rest of the Falashmura (to Israel from Ethiopia)
  • The exit from Gaza - Four years later: The widows of the soldiers who fell in Operation Protective Edge speak about the great wound, the long healing and new loves
Israel Hayom
  • The Nation-State law was approved: “This is the defining moment in the history of the State”
  • If not “Jewish,” Israel woudn’t be democratic // Amnon Lord
  • Necessary law, that High Court could harm // Mati Tuchfeld
  • She injected insulin in her infant son - and defrauded National Insurance
  • Battle over the surrogacy law: Hundreds protested in Tel-Aviv
  • Senior doctor transferred patients to private clinic - and was fired
  • From climate change to landing on Mars: NASA chief in special interview
  • Suddenly, an explosive balloon landed in my yard // Yehuda Peretz, ‘Israel Hayom’ photographer
  • The arrest of the rabbi and the storm: Attorney General ordered not to summon Rabbi Haiyun for interrogation
  • I will navigate - Avi Gabbay closes a stormy year at the head of the Labor party and makes clear: I won’t vacate my seat for any one
  • (Singer) Shem-Tov Levi misses (deceased singer) Arik Einstein and for the first time performs the songs they created together
  • After the last week in the south, Israel can say she did everything to prevent a war // Yoav Limor
  • The Putin-Trump summit ended without an agreement and in Europe they breathed a breath of relief // Eldad Beck
 
News Summary:
Israel passes the contentious nation-state law, while nationalist right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visits Israel,
LGBTs protest the surrogacy law that leaves them out and get the backing of major companies, and Israel detains a Conservative rabbi for performing non-Orthodox weddings making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers. Meanwhile, more mortar shells were fired at Israel from Gaza and Israel bombed again in Gaza.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.

Recent Entries