APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday November 21, 2014
Quote of the day:
"In times like these, it's important to remember there are also good Arabs! And they can
be found here."
--Text attached to photo of a Muslim cemetery sent by an Ashkelon math teacher to his 11th and 12th grade students this week. The teacher reportedly said he sent it to his students by mistake instead of to another WhatsApp group.
--Text attached to photo of a Muslim cemetery sent by an Ashkelon math teacher to his 11th and 12th grade students this week. The teacher reportedly said he sent it to his students by mistake instead of to another WhatsApp group.
Front Page News:
Haaretz
- Livni toeing Netanyahu's line now: She will support his version of the nation-state bill
- When Netanyahu's security horse is finished, the unity (government) rabbit is pulled out // Yossi Verter
- The stupidity, the blindness and the (diplomatic) freeze are a existential danger // Shabtai Shavit
- 27 Egged bus drivers from E. Jerusalem quit out of fear for their security
- Shin Bet: The driver who hit the soldiers (in West Bank) admitted it was an attack
- Released yesterday for publication: Hamas cell wanted to shoot an RPG at convoy of (Foreign Minister Avigdor) Lieberman
- Security establishment bodies uniting in opposition to the collective punishment against Palestinians
- State eased (rules) for carrying weapons - but did not reveal in which communities
- Behind the scenes and the bars: The secrets and debts of Beni Tavin
Yedioth Ahronoth
- The conspiracy: To eliminate Lieberman with a missile
- Death in our window // Nahum Barnea interviews father of one of Palestinian killers asking what motivated him
- The dream team // Sima Kadmon says Netanyahu called for elections the day before the synagogue attack and then called for a unity government - which no one wants to join
- What's awaiting us // Yuval Diskin, former Shin Bet chief writes that using more force against Palestinians won't work
- Wall-to-wall condemnations: No to firing Arabs
- Differentiating between good and bad // Hanoch Daum
- The Arab janitor of the synagogue in Har Nof: "I saw my synagogue and I cried"
- Love, but less - The annual popularity index: Drop for the IDF, the police and the High Court. Also dropped for Arabs
- Prepare your jackets - Rains, winds and significant drop in temperatures for today and tomorrow
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- On the edge - Intifada, religious war or isolated attacks, however you look at it the situation in Jerusalem is on the verge of exploding // Alon Ben-David; Haim Greidinger with the shocked residents of Har Nof; Ran Adelist on the security establishment's part in the security deterioration
- Friends of the (Druze) policeman Zeidan Seif who was killed when he charged at the terrorists claim: "We are respected only when we die"
- The 61st option // Ben Caspit on the possibility raised by four heads of parties to oust him
- The target: Lieberman - Released for publication: 3 Hamas activists planned to assassinate the Foreign Minister
- No hope: Behind the scenes of the failed hearing recently held to release Pollard
- (Former Histadrut National Labor Union chief) Ofer Eini: "Get used to it. I'm a businessman"
- The (famous deceased singer Arik) Einstein legend: Enormous project on one year anniversary of his death
- Closing the circle: Friends of (murdered teen) Noa Eyal part from her
Israel Hayom
- Jerusalem: Security to be increased; homes of terrorists to be demolished - High Court ruled it's possible to destroy homes of perpetrators of murderous attacks
- Wave of condemnations: "There is no place for discriminating against Arabs of Israel"
- Continue to co-exist, but don't make light of the fear // Dan Margalit
- Police: Judge Cohen - to trial for sex crimes
- (Minister) Steinitz: "At the moment, there is no good agreement with Iran"
- Winter returned big time: Rainy weekend, cold and stormy
- Released for publication: Cell of Hamas activists planned to assassinate Foreign Minister Lieberman
- Israeli pride: Two candidates for Oscar in category of short films
- On the way to the first religious war? Every incident has explosive potential // Yoav Limor
- Parting: Dareen Asad lost her husband a (Border Police) officer in a terror attack while she was pregnant
News Summary:
Jerusalem is on the edge of exploding into a religious war or an intifada, government efforts to reinstate Arab workers fired due to Jewish citizens' fear of them, while other Arabs quit their jobs out of fear for their lives, and a thwarted plan to assassinate Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman were the top stories in today's Hebrew newspapers. Meanwhile, Israel plans to demolish the homes of four more Palestinian attackers, numerous attacks on Arabs by right-wingers have taken place across the country and Iran nuclear talks are expected to be extended past the deadline, possibly till March.
Jerusalem is on the edge of exploding into a religious war or an intifada, government efforts to reinstate Arab workers fired due to Jewish citizens' fear of them, while other Arabs quit their jobs out of fear for their lives, and a thwarted plan to assassinate Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman were the top stories in today's Hebrew newspapers. Meanwhile, Israel plans to demolish the homes of four more Palestinian attackers, numerous attacks on Arabs by right-wingers have taken place across the country and Iran nuclear talks are expected to be extended past the deadline, possibly till March.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.