"The Palestinian issue was and remains the number one problem of Israel, and it will also be an important challenge, possibly the existential one, of Israel in 2015."
--Maariv's security analyst Yossi Melman sums up Israel's security challenges of 2014, writing that Hamas is no longer a terror organization and that without a peace agreement two things can happen - and neither of them is good.**

"Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requests that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet."
--Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid launches a personal attack on the Prime Minister.**

785.
--Number of Israelis who renounced their citizenship in 2014, a 65% increase over the previous year.**

"Herzog can’t compete with this unequivocal extremism. The messages he’s sending on diplomatic and security issues are too complex. After all, he truly believes in a two-state solution, but that will entail far-reaching concessions encompassing most of the territories — essentially, a withdrawal to the 1967 lines with territorial swaps. And go explain that to the people on the eve of an election."
--Haaretz+ economic analyst says that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's approach of managing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rather than resolving it will ultimately lead to Israel's economic collapse.**

 "I leave the film with the feeling that it can be better here between human beings if we would give every person the equal right to be different..."

--Former president Shimon Peres after watching the film 'Dancing Arabs,' based on the roughly autobiographical book by Sayed Kashua about being a young Arab at a Jewish boarding school in Israel.**

"In the reality of a far-off peace, in which you depend like a puppet on the goodwill of Big Brother, all you have left is to bark, and perhaps to exact a price on Big Brother's image."
--Maariv's Jacky Khugy explains why the Palestinian Authority believes that suing Israel in The Hague is an appropriate Palestinian revenge in an interesting analysis.**

"Their voices usually go unheard. They do not appear on talk shows, and television series on Islam are not interested in them...We’d rather have two-bit interpreters of religious law who shout “death to the West..."
--Haaretz's Zvi Bar'el writes how the Western media neglects the Muslim majority.

"The Jews are marginal players in this affair. The French are not mourning the four murdered Jews; they are mourning themselves."
--Senior Yedioth commentator Nahum Barnea writes from Paris following the terror attacks on a satirical magazine and a kosher supermarket.**

"With God’s help, the journalists at Haaretz will be murdered just like in France."
-- A comment by a Jewish Israeli on the Facebook page of  journalist and far-right wing Im Tirtzu founder Ronen Shoval, after the latter posted a call for an investigation into Haaretz’s editors on suspicion of “defeatist propaganda.” **