APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, August 30, 2018
Quote of the day:
“One government minister told me recently that the Arabs in Israel usually
behave as an exemplary minority, certainly considering the ongoing conflict, and
that most of them truly aspire to become part of Israeli society. But that cannot
be said publicly, he told me, because in Israel such a statement costs you two or
three Knesset seats.”
--Haaretz+ commentator, Ravit Hecht, writes that there is only a “thin veneer that still masks the racist regime in Israel,” where the right-wing government passes the Nation-State Law, right-wing politicians incite against Arabs, the court approves the seizure of privately-owned Palestinian land to give to settlers, and where many support the convicted ex-soldier Elor Azaria, from a “deep-seated fundamental belief that a Palestinian who did wrong should be killed on the spot, like a stray dog.”
You Must Be Kidding:
A pro-Kahane Israeli group is raising funds in the US with tax-exempt status, even though the Kahane-related organizations, Kach and Kahane Chai, are listed as terror organizations.
Front Page:
--Haaretz+ commentator, Ravit Hecht, writes that there is only a “thin veneer that still masks the racist regime in Israel,” where the right-wing government passes the Nation-State Law, right-wing politicians incite against Arabs, the court approves the seizure of privately-owned Palestinian land to give to settlers, and where many support the convicted ex-soldier Elor Azaria, from a “deep-seated fundamental belief that a Palestinian who did wrong should be killed on the spot, like a stray dog.”
You Must Be Kidding:
A pro-Kahane Israeli group is raising funds in the US with tax-exempt status, even though the Kahane-related organizations, Kach and Kahane Chai, are listed as terror organizations.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Sara Netanyahu suspected of receiving bribes in Case 4000
- (Religious) courts ruled that hundreds of people should receive a gett (religious divorce), but the cases were closed without it being given
- Netanyahu’s 40 mandate goal is not only a threat to his partners, it has a symbolic meaning // Yossi Verter
- The superpowers are trying to reach an agreement, but it’s doubtful whether Assad’s offensive on Idlib will be forestalled // Zvi Bar’el
- Assad is getting closer to the end, but also Hezbollah is trying to learn lessons (and the Israeli army's ground forces struggle to keep up // Amos Harel
- Court: Gallery that hosted ‘Breaking the Silence’ will need to leave the premises within five months
- Tel-Aviv Municipality will turn 10 academics into teachers in a shortened process
- The story of a 78-year-old, whose parents were discovered after his death, gives hope to adults who were adopted in their youth
- It’s not the animals’ fault: Humans are responsible for the breakout of illnesses that animals transfer
- How Trump’s fate is tied with the tabloid ‘National Enquirer’
Yedioth Ahronoth
- The education revolution of the periphery - the plan that will narrow the gaps
- Police: Sara Netanyahu is also suspected of receiving bribes in Case 4000
- Lieberman’s declaration - The Defense Minister speaks: No arrangement with Hamas without the return of the missing Israelis; On the candidates for Chief of Staff: “Officers and gentlemen, they don’t speak badly about others nor gossip”; On the influence of politics on the army: “Oslo process poisoned the generals, senior generals must not be conducting diplomatic negotiations”
- The Argaman revolution - Nadav Argaman summarizes two years as Shin Bet Chief
- Queens of the skies - Rare interview with four female operators of drones, Israel’s secret arm
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- The year will begin - 2,310,000 pupils begin school on Sunday
- Pedophile teachers were arrested (also Haaretz+)
- Mossad Chief watched the (Israeli) theft from the Iranian archives in real-time
- The suspicion: Bribery (Photo of Sara Netanyahu)
- Fake media: The conduct of the media is dangerous to freedom of speech // [Far right-wing] Attorney Yoram Sheftel
- Height of heat - Prepare the air-conditioners: From today, sharp rise in temperatures
- Expose - This is how Israel is losing responsibility for the lands in E. Jerusalem// Kalman Libeskind [right-wing commentator]
- In the cross-hairs: The man who eliminated Bin Laden has marked Trump // Ron Miburg
Israel Hayom
- Sharp rise in number of ultra-Orthodox studying core subjects; 6000 registered to study in ultra-Orthodox state schools
- Who decides what is purity of arms // Dror Eydar
- Exclusive - Doesn’t regret - Elor Azaria: “After I got out of jail [for extra-judicial killing of already shot, incapacitated Palestinian assailant], I got a message from the army that I was put in a reserve duty unit - as a combat soldier”
- Shas Control - Avishai Ben-Haim in a sharp attack on the “elites that are persecuting (Shas leader) Deri”
- Exposed in the tower - The first Druze officer who will command the Armored Corps, Hisham Ibrahim, in a rare interview
- Case 4000: Prime Minister’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, is suspected of bribery
- Hundreds of residents of south Tel-Aviv demonstrated in protest of the lack of a solution to the problem of the infiltrators (from Sudan and Eritrea) (also Haaretz+)
- Red September: Heat wave expected this weekend
News Summary:
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara is suspected by police of taking bribes, and shortly after that report came out, Israeli TV media reported that their son, Yair, was also suspected of bribery in Case 4000, the Bezeq-Walla affair, (Yedioth ran a photo that it said the Netanyahu family released yesterday of Yair holding a little girl at an orphanage in Odessa, Ukraine, where he’s traveling), the school year begins on Sunday and two pedophile teachers were arrested, and a couple were run over by a car on their honeymoon in Thailand, killing the husband and making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
What wasn’t in the most of the print media were the messages to Israel from Hamas chief and the murder of Arab Israelis in their towns. Speaking to reporters, Hamas politburo chief Yahya Sinwar said Israel and Hamas could make a prisoner swap even without reaching an agreement on a long-term cease-fire, that a calm could be reached between Israel and Hamas without reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah and that Hamas doesn't want a military confrontation, "but we are not afraid of one.” Sinwar threatened that if necessary, "all of the missiles that the Palestinian resistance fired [at Israel] during the 51 days of the last war [in 2014] it can fire in five minutes." (Also MaarivOnline)
An engaged young Arab-Israeli couple was shot dead while driving in the Arab-Israeli town of Tira and a 33-year-old Arab Israeli man was killed in Jisr as-Zarqa, an Israeli Arab city in the north. MK Ayman Odeh, chairman of the Joint List, tweeted in response to the shooting: "While (Public Security Minister Gilad) Erdan wants to distribute weapons to any person, Arab society is bleeding…There is no sadder testimony to the police's neglect of the handling of illegal weapons and crime gangs.”Joint List lawmaker MK Ahmad Tibi blamed the army and the police for failing to put an end to the smuggling of weapons from military bases to the Arab communities, thereby resulting in a high murder rate. (Also MaarivOnline)
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara is suspected by police of taking bribes, and shortly after that report came out, Israeli TV media reported that their son, Yair, was also suspected of bribery in Case 4000, the Bezeq-Walla affair, (Yedioth ran a photo that it said the Netanyahu family released yesterday of Yair holding a little girl at an orphanage in Odessa, Ukraine, where he’s traveling), the school year begins on Sunday and two pedophile teachers were arrested, and a couple were run over by a car on their honeymoon in Thailand, killing the husband and making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
What wasn’t in the most of the print media were the messages to Israel from Hamas chief and the murder of Arab Israelis in their towns. Speaking to reporters, Hamas politburo chief Yahya Sinwar said Israel and Hamas could make a prisoner swap even without reaching an agreement on a long-term cease-fire, that a calm could be reached between Israel and Hamas without reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah and that Hamas doesn't want a military confrontation, "but we are not afraid of one.” Sinwar threatened that if necessary, "all of the missiles that the Palestinian resistance fired [at Israel] during the 51 days of the last war [in 2014] it can fire in five minutes." (Also MaarivOnline)
An engaged young Arab-Israeli couple was shot dead while driving in the Arab-Israeli town of Tira and a 33-year-old Arab Israeli man was killed in Jisr as-Zarqa, an Israeli Arab city in the north. MK Ayman Odeh, chairman of the Joint List, tweeted in response to the shooting: "While (Public Security Minister Gilad) Erdan wants to distribute weapons to any person, Arab society is bleeding…There is no sadder testimony to the police's neglect of the handling of illegal weapons and crime gangs.”Joint List lawmaker MK Ahmad Tibi blamed the army and the police for failing to put an end to the smuggling of weapons from military bases to the Arab communities, thereby resulting in a high murder rate. (Also MaarivOnline)
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.