״Now what? Now let's stop telling ourselves our narrative, and let's deal with some of the claims."
--Senior Maariv political commentator Ben Caspit writes today that the UN report on Operation Protective Edge was "balanced and restrained."

"It’s possible they wore short dresses, but they were more modest and didn’t reach mid-hip.”
--The main complaint of Magda Haroun, the leader of the tiny Jewish community of Egypt, about the accuracy of the portrayal of Jews in the new big hit TV series in the Arab world, “The Jewish Quarter.”**

"We know that the road to peace is not easy, that the answers are not straightforward, and that it takes two sides to make peace. But we also know that in the absence of progress towards peace, Israel loses support, and peace becomes even harder to achieve."
--Outgoing Jewish UK Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, writes a warm goodbye letter to Israelis.**

49 and 9.
--Percentage of Israelis who think a nuclear agreement with Iran is an existential threat and the percentage of those who support Israeli military action against Iran.**

"What Jew exactly do you want...?" 
--Response of manager to large Jerusalem taxi company when director of Jerusalem Ballet, Marina Neeman, requested he send "only a Jewish driver.** 

“I reached the conclusion that there is no reason to trust the prosecution’s witnesses’ testimony, while the defendant appeared to the court to be trustworthy, from his account of the events until this day."
--In a chilling tale in which the accused became the defendant, Judge Dov Pollock ruled that the defendant, a Palestinian man who called for help from soldiers and police to remove settlers from his property, was the one telling the truth, not the soldiers and police who gave false witness supporting the settlers.**