APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday January 06, 2014
Quote of the day:
"Friends, Bibi (Netanyahu) is not missing votes in the Knesset, the question is only if he has the
backbone."
--Opposition leader and Labor party chief Isaac Herzog says Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has a mandate to
reach a peace deal, but doubts if he has the courage.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday January 05, 2014
Quote of the day:
"I have no problem with the political demand that the valley should be part of the State of Israel. Such a position is permissible. What bothers me is that it's being depicted as some kind of security problem."
--Former Mossad chief refuted the claim that Israel needs to keep the Jordan Beqaa Valley for its security.**
The Forward (JJ Goldberg's blog) - December 20,
2013
APN is one of two pro-Israel organizations opposing new Iran
sanctions bill
http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/189632/jewish-groups-back-new-sanctions-senators-split/#ixzz2o82O96sW
Haaretz (AP story) - December 22, 2013
Peace Now legal counsel Michael Sfard
profiled
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/1.564791
Ynet (AP story) - December 23, 2013
Peace Now legal counsel Michael Sfard
profiled
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4468424,00.html
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle - December 26,
2013
APN's Lara Friedman: Taking 'yes' for an answer on
Iran
http://thejewishchronicle.net/view/full_story/24291935/article-Taking--yes--for-an-answer-on-Iran?instance=secondary_stories_right_column
Haaretz - December 30, 2013
Op-ed mentions APN as opposing new Iran sanctions
bill
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.566163
Oregon Salem News (online) - December 31,
2013
APN press release re: Kerry plan carried in
entirety
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december312013/kerry-plan-apn.php
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday January 03, 2014
Numbers of the day:
82.5 and 65.5
Percentage of Jewish Israeli respondents of poll that believes in teaching openness and critical thinking in
schools and percentage that believes that the schools must "teach Jewish and Zionist values without taking a
critical stance," respectively. **
Security for Settlers, Not the State of Israel
Analysis by Peace Now's Director General, Yariv Oppenheimer
2014 starts with major promise for peace in the Middle East: An American outline of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, which Secretary of State John Kerry is reportedly discussing today with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday January 02, 2014
Quote of the day:
"If Israel wants to redraw the map we are in favor of returning to the 1947 partition
lines."
--Hadash party MK Afu Agbaria responds to the Maariv/NRG report that Israel suggested transferring Israeli Arabs to
live under Palestinian Authority sovereignty.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday January 01, 2014
Quote of the day:
"Regards to John Kerry"
--Graffiti spray-painted on Palestinian home in village near Ramallah, where three cars were also torched, takes
jab at visiting US Secretary of State.**
Americans for Peace Now
Lara Friedman, APN's Director of Policy and Government
Relations, provides a weekly, comprehensive summary of congressional activity related to Israel and the Middle
East. Includes archived installments from November 2004 until the present. Read More >
UNRWA (2014)
Up-to-date numbers of Palestinian refugees supported by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA),
including statistics for individual fields of operation. PDF >| For background on UNRWA, see:
UNRWA (Reut Institute) >