APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday September 24, 2014
NOTE: News Nosh will be off for Rosh Hashana holiday Thursday and Friday. News Nosh will resume SUNDAY.
NOTE: News Nosh will be off for Rosh Hashana holiday Thursday and Friday. News Nosh will resume SUNDAY.
Number of the day:
54.
--Percentage of the Israeli public believes Israel is a good place to live in.**
--Percentage of the Israeli public believes Israel is a good place to live in.**
Front Page News:
Haaretz
- US and Arab armies opened attack against Da'ash and Al-Qaeda in Syria - US briefs Israel beforehand
- Security forces killed murderers of three (yeshiva) teens
- For first time since 1985, Israel downed Syrian place that entered Israel
- High Court test - Striking down the amendment to the anti-infiltration law brings the battle over the identity of the High Court to a climax; Meanwhile, coalition advancing amendment that will allow MKs to revive laws that were disqualified
- Department for investigating police rejected 93% of the more than 11,000 complaints filed by civilians
- Blow to public housing: Attorney General ruled there is no obligation to invest money from assets sold into new apartments
- State increasing pace of destruction of Bedouin homes in E. Jerusalem
- From the Senior in the north to the 'mitultal' in Tel-Aviv: A photographic journey between historic synagogues
- Club of cacti collectors in Israel was born in a box of matches, and is finding trouble adjusting to the Internet
- Thousands of N. Koreans putting themselves endangering themselves to defect to the US, but some also choose the opposite direction
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Account closed - In the air: Syrian plane downed; At sea: Tanin submarine anchored in Haifa; On land: Teens' kidnappers eliminated (VIDEO)
- Happy 5775
- Good start // President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin
- The hero got married - In the hardest days for Ziv Shilon, who lost his hand from a mine on the Gaza border in 2012, his girlfriend Adi Sitbon was at his side
- "If taxes go up, the government will be dismantled" - Finance Minister Yair Lapid in holiday interview
- The mandates poll - Sima Kadmon/Dr. Mina Tzemach
- Saving Ohad - the moving journey to rehabilitate Ohad Ben-Yishai, who was severely injured in Gaza
- The glittering couple - Ivanka Trump and Jared Kishner in rare interview ahead of acquisition of Phoenix insurance
- The stronger sex - Dana Spector in an Indian tribe where the women rule
- Keren light - Diet of (singer) Keren Pallas: This is how I lost 24 kilos without suffering
- Geula's time - "They marked me as a target to eliminate" - (Presenter and wife of resigned minister Saar) returns fire and speaks about her love story with Gideon Saar
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links)
- "Our battle against Hamas is comparable to the battle of the West against ISIS" - Prime Minister (Netanyahu) in interview with Jerusalem Post on occasion of New Year (English)
- Maariv poll: (Popular former minister) Kahlon rising, Bennett getting stronger, Lapid crashing
- "We executed a smooth and clean operation" - Major Amir Friedman, who ran the operation...Murderers of Naftali, Gil-Ad and Eyal were eliminated by Yamam and Shin Bet
- Israel downed Syrian jet
- The station does not answer - Day after High Court decision canceling the amendment to the anti-infiltration bill, in south Tel-Aviv they promise to continue to struggle: "They are abandoning us"
- Lie of refusing to serve (in the IDF) // Kalman Libskind
- Which army will accept the next Chief of Staff? // Alon Ben-David
- The meteor: Naftali Bennett is the man of the year of 'Maariv Weekend'
- From the Mossad to the yeshiva: A journey to the roots of (former Mossad chief) Efraim Halevy
- The lover from Qatar: The Arab newspapers against the grandson of Dayan (who visited Qatar on reporting trip)
- Account was closed // Brother's Keeper: Operation is over - the pain remains; Fighers from Yamam unit eliminated two murderers in night operation in Hebron
- Good that they were eliminated and not arrested // Dan Margalit
- And suddenly justice showed up // Emily Amrousi
- For the first time since '85: Syrian plan downed above Golan Heights
- US attacked ISIS in Syria
- "The new submarine - a message to our enemies"
- Happy New Year from the Golani Brigade reconnaissance unit
- Next generation - Bar Refaeli is already waiting to be a mother
- (Former MTV host) Eden Harel , soon a mother of 5, is so far from MTV
- "Radical Islam is a global threat" - PM Binyamin Netanyahu in holiday interview
- Groundbreaker - Dov Moran: "I feel that I changed the world"
- Without barriers - Rabbi Haim Sabato on literature, Judaism and society
News Summary:
The targeted killings of the two suspects in the murders of three yeshiva teens, the downing of a Syrian plane in Israeli land, the arrival of a Dolphin-class nuclear capable submarine at Haifa port were the top stories in today's Hebrew newspapers on the eve of Rosh Hashana. Israeli Prime Minister Binaymin Netanyahu gave interviews to The Jerusalem Post (translated to Hebrew in Maariv) and to Israel Hayom, saying that the West's battle against radical Islam is equivalent to Israel's battle against ISIS and that radical Islam is a global threat.
On the Gaza front, Yedioth's Itamar Eichner reports that CCTVs will be employed to observe the transfer of construction materials into Gaza and prevent dual-use items from being used by Hamas for other purposes.
Maariv's Yasser Ukabi reported that in talks in Cairo, the Israelis and Palestinians agreed to extend the temporary truce until the end of October. And in New York, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would submit his UN resolution Friday for an IDF withdrawal from the West Bank.
And what was barely mentioned in the papers, but was reported online, was the rioting that broke out yesterday on the Temple Mount. Israel Hayom reported that "The riot broke out during Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch's visit to the Temple Mount. He was touring the area with Jerusalem District Police Commander Yossi Pariente." Ynet did not explain why Palestinians rioted. The Israeli media also reported that "an extreme right-wing Jewish activist was removed from the Temple Mount due to suspicion that he intended to disturb the peace." Maariv online posted a video showing Housing Minister Uri Ariel on the Temple Mount while rioting went on in the background.
Only Maan reported that "clashes began...after police forced Palestinians out of the Muslim holy site at gunpoint... They added that the clashes became even more intense as Israeli Minister of Housing Uri Ariel entered the compound with a group of right-wing Israeli Jews."
POLLS:
**Israel Hayom: Majority of Israelis prefer living in Israel
54% of public believes Israel is a good place to live in.
61% would rather live here than anywhere else.
57% feel "Jewish first and Israeli second."
Security situation, cost of living remain top public concerns.
Maariv:
Were elections held today a party led by former communications minister Moshe Kahlon, would get 11 mandates. Economy Minister and Habayit Hayehudi chairman Naftali Bennett draws strength at the expense of Yesh Atid, but still has less than the Likud. Meretz is reinforced with 9 seats compared to six today.
The targeted killings of the two suspects in the murders of three yeshiva teens, the downing of a Syrian plane in Israeli land, the arrival of a Dolphin-class nuclear capable submarine at Haifa port were the top stories in today's Hebrew newspapers on the eve of Rosh Hashana. Israeli Prime Minister Binaymin Netanyahu gave interviews to The Jerusalem Post (translated to Hebrew in Maariv) and to Israel Hayom, saying that the West's battle against radical Islam is equivalent to Israel's battle against ISIS and that radical Islam is a global threat.
On the Gaza front, Yedioth's Itamar Eichner reports that CCTVs will be employed to observe the transfer of construction materials into Gaza and prevent dual-use items from being used by Hamas for other purposes.
Maariv's Yasser Ukabi reported that in talks in Cairo, the Israelis and Palestinians agreed to extend the temporary truce until the end of October. And in New York, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would submit his UN resolution Friday for an IDF withdrawal from the West Bank.
And what was barely mentioned in the papers, but was reported online, was the rioting that broke out yesterday on the Temple Mount. Israel Hayom reported that "The riot broke out during Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch's visit to the Temple Mount. He was touring the area with Jerusalem District Police Commander Yossi Pariente." Ynet did not explain why Palestinians rioted. The Israeli media also reported that "an extreme right-wing Jewish activist was removed from the Temple Mount due to suspicion that he intended to disturb the peace." Maariv online posted a video showing Housing Minister Uri Ariel on the Temple Mount while rioting went on in the background.
Only Maan reported that "clashes began...after police forced Palestinians out of the Muslim holy site at gunpoint... They added that the clashes became even more intense as Israeli Minister of Housing Uri Ariel entered the compound with a group of right-wing Israeli Jews."
POLLS:
**Israel Hayom: Majority of Israelis prefer living in Israel
54% of public believes Israel is a good place to live in.
61% would rather live here than anywhere else.
57% feel "Jewish first and Israeli second."
Security situation, cost of living remain top public concerns.
Maariv:
Were elections held today a party led by former communications minister Moshe Kahlon, would get 11 mandates. Economy Minister and Habayit Hayehudi chairman Naftali Bennett draws strength at the expense of Yesh Atid, but still has less than the Likud. Meretz is reinforced with 9 seats compared to six today.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.