News Nosh 12.17.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday December 17, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
"(Everyone) worked here together in agriculture. There was no difference between them. After a hard day's work in the field they sat together on the ground, each one took out the food he had brought from home, and everyone ate some of the other’s food. One told a joke, another told a story, and that’s how they passed time pleasantly. They liked one another, they laughed and they cried together.”
--Shfaram Mayor Ursan Yassin, 65, described to a group of visiting Jewish descendants his father's description of the shared life of Jews, Christians, Druze and Muslims, who lived "like one family" in the town until 100 years ago, when the Jews left for other parts.*

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News Nosh 12.16.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday December 16, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
“Everyone in the room understands that if we begin to look in depth at every target, they won’t leave for the next two weeks. So in many cases, it becomes a sort of automatic activity…Everyone understands that a high number of targets will result in the senior command being satisfied and it always adds to the advancement of the planning team commanders.”
Two anonymous IDF airmen revealed to Haaretz why the IDF decision-making teams that choose Palestinian targets to attack are not interested in validating old targets and why they are motivated to create as many news ones as they can, which leads to the deaths of innocent people, such as the nine members of the al-Sawarka family killed last month in Gaza.*

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Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

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News Nosh 12.15.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday December 15, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
“Some parents are afraid of the influence we might have on the youth. It’s simply appalling. We visit other schools, and one of the first questions we ask is whether the teens have ever met a Palestinian. Everywhere we go, the answer is no, and then they realize that the person in front of them is a human being. Apparently that scares the government."
-Aharon Barnea, member of the Bereaved Families Forum, reacted to the cancellation of a meeting of bereaved Israeli and Palestinian family members with high school students in a town in Israel's north.*

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Legislative Round-up: December 13, 2019

Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived

Views and positions expressed here do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

  1. Bills, Resolutions, & Letters 
  2. Hearings
  3. On the Record 
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News Nosh 12.12.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday December 12, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
"Netanyahu did not work to sow seeds of compromise, to produce reconciliatory rhetoric or charge at the rifts before they expand into a chasm. He took advantage of these failures to increase his power."
--Commentator Nadav Eyal writes in Yedioth that the first challenge facing leaders in the post-Netanyahu era will be to deal with the hatred in society and the way in which public debate is conducted.*

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News Nosh 12.11.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday December 11, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
“Show me where in West Jerusalem or in Tel Aviv a man would put cameras on his drug den? He knows they won’t do anything to him. If anyone touches him he would come with his weapon and shoot. The police know, everyone knows and no one does anything. Nobody dares touch him.”
—Khaled Zeir, a resident of Silwan neighborhood in E. Jerusalem, was one of many Palestinian Jerusalemites that Haaretz’s Nir Hasson interviewed who described how Israeli police were not only not stopping the plague of drug dealers filling the E. Jerusalem streets, but preventing residents from organizing to stop them.*

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News Nosh 12.10.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday December 10, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
"When there's a vacuum, ignorance and lies take place.”
--Dr. Liat Ben David, director of the Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, said after a religious Jewish speaker who claimed that the Earth was flat gave a lecture to ninth graders at the request of the American Jewish religious organization, which operates that school and over 100 others.*

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News Nosh 12.9.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday November 26, 2019
 
Number of the day:
2,306,000.
--Number of people living in poverty in Israel, according to a report by Latet, an Israeli food bank NGO. Half of the elderly in need cannot heat their homes in winter or adapt them to medical needs and more than half of children receiving aid do not have enough to eat.*

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