APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday March 22, 2020
Quote of the day:
“The attempt to prevent the elected Knesset from overseeing what an unelected prime minister does is a
coup attempt. And as long as the Knesset is not functioning, we live in a dictatorship.”
—Yuval Noah Harari in a chilling Op-Ed in today's Yedioth Ahronoth.*
You Must Be Kidding #1:
Netanyahu and three Likud ministers wanted to shut down the Knesset for corona-related reasons, but don't down synagogues even though a third of the corona infected cases were tracked back to synagogues. In the Jewish Diaspora synagogues were closed.**
You Must Be Kidding #2:
Israeli police went into a Palestinian neighborhood in E. Jerusalem to apprehend a young man suspected of performing sanitation work on behalf of the Palestinian Authority in E. Jerusalem, which police do not allow. And residents said that arrests are conducted without protective gear and police officers do not abide by the social-distancing orders.***
—Yuval Noah Harari in a chilling Op-Ed in today's Yedioth Ahronoth.*
You Must Be Kidding #1:
Netanyahu and three Likud ministers wanted to shut down the Knesset for corona-related reasons, but don't down synagogues even though a third of the corona infected cases were tracked back to synagogues. In the Jewish Diaspora synagogues were closed.**
You Must Be Kidding #2:
Israeli police went into a Palestinian neighborhood in E. Jerusalem to apprehend a young man suspected of performing sanitation work on behalf of the Palestinian Authority in E. Jerusalem, which police do not allow. And residents said that arrests are conducted without protective gear and police officers do not abide by the social-distancing orders.***
Front Page:
This episode features a new report by Israel’s Peace Now
movement, reviewing Israel’s West Bank settlement activity in 2019. Presenting the report is Brian Reeves, Peace
Now’s director of external relations. Brian is an American Israeli residing in Tel Aviv, and he is an expert on
settlement activity.
As global crises typically do, the Coronavirus – its spread, and
the looming threat it poses to humankind – provides us with a sense of perspective.
