"We are getting calls from people who have never approached us before."
--Sivan Hendel, director of the peace education department at the Peres Center for Peace, says the escalating wave of violence between Arabs and Jews has sparked a jump in requests for "peace-related materials" for both Jewish and Arab schools.
 
"The heavy hand of the right will lead to a reality in which my grandchildren won't be able to live here. And that's not because the left has lost its way and not because of the right's pragmatism, but because there's no leadership that's fighting for the future.”
-- Nissim Zvili, one of four men involved in the former peace process who gave an interview to Yedioth about their views of Israel's future.

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"The decision was intentionally general and unclear. It wasn't said in what situation exactly one could shoot and in which one not, but the message was clear: it is permissible to use a lighter finger on the trigger without fear of being put on trial."
--Yedioth's Legal Affairs reporter Tovah Tzimuki describes the Israeli government cabinet decision that led to a 'Wild West' phenomenon in Israel. Now Israel's Attorney General is putting things in order with a new guideline on when Israelis can shoot to kill.

“We won’t accept the emerging trend by which only residents of the Territories will get benefits. Likud gives money to settlements at the expense of the Galilee and the Negev. Begin would be ashamed of being in the Likud today.”
--MK Eitan Cabel slams the government for removing periphery communities from the list receiving tax benefits and adding settlements in and around Hebron.

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A Jewish group has offered $500 to any Jew who goes to the Temple Mount and is caught praying. 

"It shocks me how the first thing the government did was to deny any connection between the wave of terror and the occupation. That is part of the racism and dehumanization that again turns an Arab into a person whose nature is murderous and who has a perverted sense of morals." 
-Israeli actor Itay Tiran opens his mouth in interview to Yedioth ahead of the broadcasting of the suspense series he stars in. 

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“So it turns out Arabs do good things sometimes.”
--One of many Facebook posts by right-wing Israelis celebrating the death of American-Israeli left-wing activist Richard Lakin, who succumbed to the wounds he suffered from an attack in Jerusalem by two Palestinians two weeks ago. 

“’I don’t exempt myself and the government of responsibility,’ Netanyahu should have said. Instead, he was quick to explain that the situation is not related to the occupation and the settlements, and he accused Abu Mazen of lies and incitement, as if the trips (Minister) Uri Ariel (who wants to change the status quo) made to the Temple Mount were innocent annual school trips to learn about the land.”
--Uri Segal writes in Maariv that US Secretary of State John Kerry was right: the waves of Palestinian violence will come and go until the Palestinians get a state.

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 “The word ‘peace’ may escape from the lips of the former US president and then what will we do? At that moment, the rally will turn ‘political,’ Clinton will be declared a treasonous, Arab-loving ‘lefty,’ and everything will storm to heaven.”
--Ben Caspit explains how Yitzhak Rabin's assassin succeeded also in rewriting history so that the reason for his death would not be heard.