"Something isn’t going the way it should. Netanyahu’s speech to Congress last week should have created a turning point for us and strengthened Likud in the polls. It’s clear that we didn’t achieve the desired outcome.”
--One of many senior figures in Likud who told media that they are afraid Likud will lose the elections.**

"We will respond to the last post Bibi made before Sabbath and we will tell him sweet goodbye words."

--Israelis prepare to part from Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a Facebook event.**

"If I say yes, will Israel impose restrictions on all flafel (sic) and hummus ingredients?"
--Hamas activist in Gaza, Rawhi Mushtaha answers a Twitter Q&A question from Aaron Shiloh, a doctor from Philadelphia, about whether falafel and hummus were served in the Gaza tunnels.**

"As someone who survived the inferno, who lost the best of friends in the battlefield, I am fearful and I warn against a leadership that does not initiate a diplomatic-security initiative. That is leadership that will crush the Jewish and democratic identity of Israel and lead our sons from one wave of violence to the next."

--Gen. (res.) Amnon Reshef, who led an armored division that got the most casualties in the Yom Kippur War, writes why Israel must change its leadership.**

""In order to reach a solution there must be readiness to compromise. We cannot continue to rule over another people. The Palestinians have national aspirations."
--Former Israesli prime minister Ehud Barak says on a panel the day before elections.**

"They voted for the man who admitted to having duped half the world during his Bar-Ilan speech; now he has torn off his mask and disavowed those words once and for all. Israel said "yes" to the man who said "no" to a Palestinian state."
--Haaretz's Gideon Levy examines what is in the mind of the Israeli voters who elected Binyamin Netanyahu.**

"In the absence of the absolute pretension of being – even in appearance alone – prime minister to all, Netanyahu compared the attempt to replace him – through the election he himself initiated – as a putsch. He compared his rivals with ISIS [Islamic State] and his opponents to Hamas. He growled his rivals’ names with contempt, warning time and again against a “left-wing government supported by Arabs,” and in practice, identifying anybody not supportive of him as “left.” 
--Haaretz+'s Uri Misgav argues that while Binyamin Netanyahu may be prime minister, he is no longer the national leader of Israel.**

"Netanyahu in Hebrew: If I become prime minister, a Palestinian state will not be created.
Netanyahu in English: I did not go back on my speech at Bar Ilan University, I believe in the two-state solution."
--Israeli Army Radio journalsit Ido Benbaji Tweets in response to Netanyahu's interview to NBC News.

"Don’t cry when your children die in the next military campaign...You again elected the leader who promises us death and not life, fear and not hope."
--Israeli author Yehonatan Geffen wrote on Facebook following the elections and on Friday he was attacked at his home.**

"Welcome to the nightmare that we woke up to...It has become dangerous here. We are on a slippery slope. The Prime Minister must stop this."
--Left-wing Israeli singer Ahinoam Nini said after being verbally attacked upon her arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport.**