8,462,000.

--Number of Israeli citizens on the eve of 2016, 21% are Arab, 3% are new immigrants.**

"Jews don't like to be tagged as the 'price tag' hooligans. What you hate done to you, don't do to your neighbors. Don't label all of the Arabs of Israel for the horrific murder."
--Right-wing Yedioth commentator Ben-Dror Yemini comes to the defense of the Arab Israeli community of Israel, unlike the country's Prime Minister, following the shooting attack by an Arab Israeli.**

"When prominent politicians, at the level of ministers and MKs, find it difficult to define a crime so heinous and cruel as an act of terror, it makes it difficult for the entire establishment to wipe out the scourge, such as the youth of "The Revolt Network" from the agenda of the Jewish and democratic State of Israel. 

--MK Yaakov Perry, a former Shin Bet chief, in a special Op-Ed in Maariv.

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"Sometimes you get sick of damaging property, etc. and you want to make a clear strike that will set the accursed on fire, then you just want to set fire to the house itself with its inhabitants inside." 
--From a document belonging to "The Revolt" network, the radical religious right-wing Jews who hoped to spark a war between the Palestinians and the Israelis in order to topple the government and create a Jewish kingdom. 

"By staying silent, by refraining from the kind of forceful, game-changing protest that the current situation warrants, American Jews are not only abandoning like-minded Israelis, they are betraying Israel itself."
--Haaretz's Washington correspondent Chemi Shalev writes that if the "waves of chauvinistic anti-democratic legislation and incitement" were washing over the US, Jewish Americans would not stay silent.**

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Two Israeli Arabs were forced to get off a plane before the flight home from Greece due to the demand of a group of Jewish Israeli passengers, who stood up preventing the plane from taking off until they did.***

"We're cousins. We need to forget this nonsense about Arabs and Jews. We are all human beings, no matter what your religion is, we are one people. We give you a hand, you help us and we help you."
--Mazen Qaq, an Arab Israeli, who has offered 40,000 shekels to anyone who provides information that could lead to the capture of suspected Tel Aviv shooter Nashat Melhem.**

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"We told the officers that we are people, not numbers. We have no problem with a security check, but not in this manner."
--Hebron residents outraged after IDF assigns numbers to Palestinians who live near Jewish settlement enclave in Hebron.***

"Everybody's holy land except those people."
--A 'Tweet' by someone who took the #ExplainingTheMiddleEastIn6Words challenge.

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Israeli TV reporter gets stabbed while demonstrating protective vest.

"The conference, which is meeting for the first time in its history in Jerusalem, is intended to identify with city residents in all its neighborhoods during a period of violence and fear."
--Uri Zaki, the chairman of a Meretz conference, held to discuss the escalation of the security situation and the possibility of pushing for a renewal of diplomacy between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.**

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In the video, when asked how it felt to kiss a stranger not of their own race and religion, one participant in the video replies at the end of the video, "less strange than the [Arab-Israeli] conflict."

"Every Nashat Melhem, every Samir Kuntar, is a terrorist who is also acting against me. I walk on Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Street, too. My friends could have been there on the day of the attack too. I also fear for my life and for their life."
--Arab-Israeli author Ayman Sikseck in today's Yedioth.

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If it looks like a tallit and feels like a tallit – it's not necessarily a tallit: Swedish retail clothing company H&M is offering on its website a new scarf for women with a striking resemblance to a tallit, the fringed garment Jews have been wearing for generations during prayer, but stores in Israel will no longer supply it.

“You have caring, warm sons who love the people and the land of Israel, for which holy fire and honor for the people of Israel burns in their heart."
--A group of 'hilltop youth' parents wrote in a letter to parents of the suspects in the Duma arson murders.**

“I told him the band would never believe that I’d gone for a week to record with him and asked if he could write me a note, like for a teacher. He gladly agreed.”
--Israeli bassist Yossi Fine recalls the life-changing experience of recording alongside music legend David Bowie.