"In a place where nation-state laws are passed, books will be burned."
--Graffiti neatly spray-painted on the wall of a Tel-Aviv synagogue a day after the Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem was set on fire.**

"The writing on the walls isn't just 'Death to Jews' or 'Death to Arabs.' The writing is an attempt to harm the fabric of our lives here and to dilute the joint values of Israeli society. Judges are not enough - we also need leadership that knows how to read the writing and to stop the deterioration."
--Justice Minister Tzipi Livni speaks before the swearing-in of new Israeli judges.**

“The elections are not over (Lapid's flagship bill for) zero VAT, but about whether there will be a Zionist or extremist country here.”
--Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, the head of Hatnuah.**

"You are proof that we can live side by side in peace, and we must not let difficult experiences – such as what you have been through – harm our belief in our ability to live side by side.”
--Israeli President Reuven Rivlin tells Arab and Jewish first graders who study together at the Max Rayne Hand in Hand bilingual school in Jerusalem, and whose classrooms were set on fire in an arson attack last weekend.**

"It won't help them. I will continue to employ people irrespective of religion, race and nationality."
--Supermarket franchise owner Rami Levy responds to pressures to fire Arabs after a stabbing attack by a Palestinian at one of his stores.**

75%.
--Percentage of Education Ministry funding that Jewish high-schoolers from a weak socioeconomic background receive more than Arab high-schoolers from a similar background.**

"When the time came to make peace with the greatest of Arab nations it did so, and when it was time to talk it talked. I and my friends will not miss an opportunity to make peace."
--Former Likud minister Moshe Kahlon says the 'real Likud' knows how to make peace and that he will do so if elected.**

"It's a disgrace that even on the last day of the Knesset, the government is trying to use upper handed opportunism to transfer millions to the settlements without allowing any discussion or questions, working against Knesset regulations." 
--Hadash party MK Dov Khenin slams decision to approve another almost $54 million dollars for settlements hours before the Knesset dispersed and just before he got kicked out of the Knesset Finance Committee.**

"The extreme right doesn’t recognize the word “border”; the “moonstruck” left, or perhaps it’s the “delusional” left, sings hymns to a binational state; and the banal left is willing to support a Palestinian state without drawing its borders. Thus all that’s left for the extreme center is to offer a non-solution, without negotiations and without Palestinian consent."
--Haaretz analyst Zvi Bar'el writes about the 'members of the extreme center party, which include Tzipi Livni.

"This is not the first time that a Palestinian participating in a civilian demonstration pays for it, wrongly, with his life. Perhaps because of the senior status of the latest casualty, those in charge will finally be demanded to take steps to investigate the cases and prevent the next unnecessary killing."
--Meretz MK Michal Rozin responds to the death of the Palestinian minister Ziyad Abu Ein following an altercation and scuffle with Israeli Border Police at a peaceful rally yesterday.**