Alray International Media Watch section is a daily press tour through selected international websites and newspapers, particularly the Israeli ones.
This section is prepared by Alray Palestinian Media Agency to update its viewers with the most Palestinian top news in the international press.
Yedioth Ahronoth:
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday defended Germany’s voting record on Israel at the United Nations, arguing that supporting the country doesn’t mean backing all of its actions. Further details
The state-owned Israel Electric Company said on Wednesday it was continuing power cuts to several cities in the West Bank to press for payment of what it said was $519 million owed by a Palestinian electricity company. Further details
The heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, will visit Israel in January to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. Further details
The high-speed express train line between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv was inaugurated Wednesday, 11 years after it was due to open and at more than twice the original cost. Further details
The high-speed express train line between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv was inaugurated Wednesday, 11 years after it was due to open and at more than twice the original cost. Further details
Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar officially submitted his candidacy for the party leadership next week, saying that allowing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remain in the position would ensure that the Likud would end up as the opposition party. Further details
Hamas has been plotting attacks against “Israel” from Turkey with the President Erdogan "playing host" to the “terror group”, British newspaper The Telegraph reports. Further details
An Israeli military aircraft on Tuesday struck an armed militant in the Gaza Strip, who approached the security fence along the border with “Israel”. Further details
Israeli military is considering cancelling rocket alert sirens, warning of incoming fire, leaving the civilian population to rely solely on the Iron Dome defense system, sources in the army said Tuesday. Further details
Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar caused fury among Benjamin Netanyahu's loyalists on Tuesday as he petitioned to have cameras installed at the polling stations when he takes on the prime minister for the leadership of the party next week. Further details
Israeli aircrafts struck a number of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early Thursday in response to a rocket fired by Palestinian militants at southern “Israel” just hours earlier. Further details
As Qatar threatens to cut off funds to Gaza, Israel is concerned that the move will lead to an eruption of violence. Further details
The Jerusalem Post:
The House Foreign Affairs Committee Unanimously passed HR2343 on Wednesday, or the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act. Further details
Several Palestinians were lightly injured after “IDF” fighter jets attacked a Hamas weapons production site in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian media. Further details
A Jerusalem District Court canceled a temporary injunction on Thursday that was filed preventing Noble Energy from conducting “operations involving gas emissions” at the Leviathan gas field. Another hearing against the operation of the gas field will be held on Thursday at 1 p.m. Further details
Peace can only come to “Israel’s” south once Hamas allows Gazans to thrive instead of investing solely in terrorism, Adele Raemer, a resident of Kibbutz Nirim, told the UN Security Council in its periodic hearing on the Middle East on Wednesday. Further details
Canada stuck to its decision to stand with the Palestinians at the United Nations General Assembly, casting a “yes” vote on an annual resolution in support of Palestinian self-determination. Further details
A Likud internal court is expected to decide on Thursday morning that the party must hold primaries for its Knesset candidates or change the party’s constitution to avoid such a race. Further details
Charles, Prince of Wales is scheduled to visit “Israel” next month on behalf of the British government for the first time, Clarence House, his official residence, announced on Wednesday. Further details
Likud MK and former Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat and former Likud MK Yehudah Glick pledged to continue their work for Israel after the British daily the Daily Telegraph revealed in a detailed expose on Tuesday that Istanbul-based Hamas members have been plotting attacks on the Israeli territory, including an assassination attempt against them and former Israel’s police chief Roni Alsheich. Further details
Over a thousand “IDF” reservists are in the midst of a large-scale drill in the West Bank, training to stop terror threats against Israeli civilians by Palestinian terrorists as Defense Minister Naftali Bennett and IDF" Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Aviv Kochavi toured a drill in the Golan Heights. Further details"
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) officials met with rabbis and educators from the religious-Zionist community on Sunday as part of an effort to reduce the number of hate crimes perpetrated by extremist settler youth. Further details
The Times of Israel:
Jerusalem’s District Court on Thursday ruled that a gas rig test off Israel’s coast that has been denounced by local authorities as potentially hazardous to the population could go ahead as planned. Further details
The air force bombed a Hamas weapons factory in the Gaza Strip before dawn Thursday after Palestinian terrorists fired a rocket at southern “Israel”, which was intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, the army said. Further details
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that he won’t go ahead with planned elections unless "Israel" allows Palestinians living in East Jerusalem to vote. Further details
The UN Mideast envoy said Wednesday that Israel advanced or approved plans for over 22,000 housing units in West Bank settlements and East Jerusalem in the three years since the Security Council adopted a resolution condemning settlements in lands the Palestinians want for their future state. Further details
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday defended Germany’s voting record on Israel at the United Nations, arguing that supporting the country doesn’t mean backing all of its actions. Further details
The “Israel Defense” Forces cleared for publication on Wednesday that it had mapped the home of a senior Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine member who is suspected of leading a squad that carried out a “terror attack” earlier this year at a West Bank spring, killing an Israeli teenager. Further details
The Israel Electric Corporation has begun periodic power cuts to Palestinian areas of the West Bank over some half a billion dollars in debt owed by a Palestinian electric provider. Further details
Likud MK Nir Barkat on Wednesday asked US Ambassador David Friedman for Washington to apply strict sanctions on Turkey in light of a newspaper report that said Turkish authorities are allowing Hamas terrorists to plan attacks on “Israel” from their territory, including a past plot to assassinate him. Further details
Security forces have arrested some 50 members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine “terror group” in raids throughout the West Bank in recent months as part of a broad crackdown following a deadly “terror attack” earlier this year, the Shin Bet security service said Wednesday. Further details
The authoritarian Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has long played host to leaders of Hamas, is now allowing the terror group’s operatives to plot “terror attacks” while on Turkish soil, a report said late Tuesday. Further details
The White House on Tuesday denied reports from a Lebanese television channel that its supposed peace plan will include a three-way deal between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, the Islamist “terror group” that rules the Gaza Strip. Further details
