"They are helping Netanyahu beat his rivals here, and he is helping them humiliate their rival there."
--Yedioth's senior commentator Nahum Barnea writes that the deal between the US Republican Party and the Likud is dangerous.**

“Hello everybody, this Druze is my little brother and I wanna send you all a message after some thinking 
Love more
Be more patient
Be nicer
Be kinder
Give more
Share more
Laugh more
And cry more
After all, we all belong to the same race, the human race..."
--Adam Hasoun, brother of Tommy, who was beaten Friday by 10 religious Jewish men in Jerusalem when they heard him speaking Arabic, posted a message to English-speaking immigrants on a Tel-Aviv Facebook group.**

26:23.
--Number of mandates for Herzog-Livni 'Zionist Camp' party vs. Likud in latest elections poll.**

"Landau was the truest of Zionists, a lover of Israel to his core: not only because of his decision to come on aliyah but because he adored Israel and prayed for its welfare each day. He thought of it as a sick patient in dire need of an urgent operation that could save it, but for the shortsighted stubbornness of its leaders."
--Haaretz's Chemi Shalev writes about the man who gave him his first reporting job.**

"He was an Orthodox editor of a secular newspaper; British to his soul, editor of a Hebrew newspaper; he was a radical Zionist and a no less radical leftist, some of whose family lived in settlements, settlements that he regarded as a disaster."
--Haaretz's Gideon Levy writes about his unusual editor-in-chief who passed away yesterday.****

“Even if the leaders of the state and the army believed that implementing this policy would bring about the cessation of firing on Israeli communities, it should not have been implemented because of the expected and horrific consequences."

--B'tselem finds that more than 70% of the people killed in IDF airstrikes on Gazan homes during Operation Protective Edge - were children, women and the elderly.

25:24.

--Number of mandates Likud would receive compared to Zionist Camp, following the Hezbollah attack on an IDF convoy in the north.