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Maariv runs some scary gossip on Bibi and “the Boss”
Bibi and "the Boss" Last night, Channel Ten TV News’s Raviv Drucker exposed a letter written to Benyamin Netanyahu in early 2009. The author, one Yisrael Yagel, a former executive in Netanyahu’s 2008...
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Maariv “exclusive”: Israel and Brazil sign major security cooperation agreement
This appears to be a major agreement: Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Security in the Defense Ministry Amir Kain signed the historic agreement for security cooperation between the two...
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Yediot: “Security establishment” warns of imminent Palestinian prisoner strike
This appears to be a General Security Service (GSS) leak: The scenario that the security establishment is preparing for is threatening. The scenario envisions the security prisoners launching a hunger...
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Yediot’s legal editor cites Nuremberg Laws, Eichmann trial, in critique of...
Rabbis’ disgrace Analysis, Boaz Okon, Yediot, December 8 2010 [front-page; Hebrew original here and at the bottom of this post] Okon In 1834, a clothes salesman in London refused to sell an article of...
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Maariv: How to build another nuclear reactor without signing the NPT
Dimona nuclear reactor Dome Like most of the world, Israel is facing a major energy crisis. Our population is growing and per-capita energy consumption is on the rise. Nuclear energy is emerging as the...
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Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders sponsorship of Jerusalem marathon
This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International...
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Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book, now in English
Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and...
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New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: ‘I can’t take the Occupation anymore’
David Remnick On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of...
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“Rejectionist front”: Maariv details Netanyahu’s refusal to directly...
Netanyahu As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct...
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Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for removing Iranian bomb distraction. Can...
Netanyahu and Dagan On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir...
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