Alex Dafner Yiddish Report 3.1.2016




Hebrew show

Summary: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu described 2015 as a terrible year due to many events and circumstances, but expressed hope and proposed that 2016 need not be the same.2. Two Arab-Israelis have been charged with planning a bomb attack against a hote... (Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu described 2015 as a terrible year due to many events and circumstances, but expressed hope and proposed that 2016 need not be the same.2. Two Arab-Israelis have been charged with planning a bomb attack against a hotel in the southern Israeli resort town of Eilat, as the wave of terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank continued. 3. Sarah Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli PM has been interviewed by the police under suspicion of having falsified government funded expenditures, to cover work at their private residence in Cesaria. 4. Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert has had his 6 year sentence for bribery, reduced by the High Court of Israel to 1.5 years, pending an appeal, as he continues to claim complete innocence of the charge. 5. Australian Jewish community leaders greeted the appointment of Michelle Guthrie as head of the ABC and expressed hope that she will tackle the anti-Israeli bias in their news and current affairs)