Israeli leader vows more settlement building
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Daniel Estrin - July 2, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel's prime minister says his government will continue settlement construction in the West Bank. A participant in a closed meeting of parliament's powerful Defense and Foreign Affairs committee said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday to continue developing areas near Jerusalem, deep inside the West Bank and in the Jordan Valley. The Israeli leader struck a defiant note on settlements days after Israel evacuated a West Bank outpost ruled illegal by Israel's Supreme Court.

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Fabled Israeli spy dies at 93
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
July 2, 2012 - 12:00am

Yaakov (Mayo) Meidad, widely considered one of the best to had served in Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, died last weekend at the age of 93, the Yediot Aharonot daily reported Monday. Former Mossad chiefs and many of its past and present agents attended the funeral, held at an undisclosed location in central Israel on Sunday.

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Shamir dies at 96
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Ian Deitch - July 1, 2012 - 12:00am

Yitzhak Shamir was a fighter for the Jews long before Israel's creation, an underground leader who led militias against the Arabs and British. He made no apologies and no compromises — not as an underground fighter, an intelligence agent who hunted Nazis, and as one of Israel's longest-serving prime ministers who refused to bargain for land.

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Israel Confronts Strangers In Its Midst
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Leonard Fein - (Opinion) July 1, 2012 - 12:00am

What shall be done about the large number of non-citizens that dwell in Israel? This question is no longer merely vexing, it is urgent, inflammatory, sometimes violent, often vulgar. The ger has a long and detailed history in Jewish texts and thought. Its conventional translation is “stranger,” but you don’t have to search hard to find alternatives: sojourner, foreigner, alien.

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National service proposal riles Israeli Arabs
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
June 29, 2012 - 12:00am

NAZARETH, Israel — Israel's plan to overhaul its military draft has veered into turbulent new territory with the government's abrupt proposal to mobilize the country's Arab minority for civilian national service.

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Fearing Public Backlash, Israeli Settlers Speak Out Against Their Own
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Dan Ephron - (Opinion) June 29, 2012 - 12:00am

When you hear an Israeli criticizing violence among settlers in the West Bank, it’s usually a peacenik or a human rights advocate. But in recent weeks, a number of prominent Jewish settlers themselves have spoken out against the hooliganism, perpetrated mainly by young extremists living in the occupied territories. Their record includes mosque burnings and other attacks on Palestinians and even assaults against Israelis whom they perceive as adversaries.

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Israeli research attempts to "inoculate" soldiers against trauma
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
June 28, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli scientists are working on a new pre-battlefield treatment which could prevent soldiers from later developing Post Traumatic Anxiety Disorder (PTSD), local media reported on Thursday. According to Tel Aviv University's Talma Hendler and officials at the Functional Brain Center at the city's Ichilov Hospital, the "neurofeedback" method is aimed at teaching the subjects how to gradually change their brain's reaction to a traumatic experience.

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Israeli rectors oppose academic upgrade of West Bank college
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
June 27, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Senior Israeli academics are urging the government not to grant university status to an state college located in a city in the West Bank. The Academic Center in Ariel has been seeking to upgrade its ranking to a university for years. The center, established three decades ago, has 12,500 students, including Israeli Arabs and Palestinians.

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FM to MK El-Sana: Terrorist, I'll take care of you first
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Ilana Curiel - June 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman engaged on Wednesday in a shouting match with Knesset Member Talab El-Sana (United Arab List-Ta'al) while visiting the Bedouin village of Al Zarnog in the Negev.

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Israel arrests 3 for attack on Holocaust memorial
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
June 26, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli police have arrested three ultra-Orthodox Jewish suspects in connection with hate graffiti sprayed at the national Holocaust memorial and two Israeli army memorials. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says the suspects admitted to vandalizing the sites. The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial complex was sprayed earlier this month in 12 different places with slogans such as "Hitler, thank you for the Holocaust." One was signed "world ultra-Orthodox Jewry."

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