“Why? Because the parliament could. It was a ‘military government’ of the left-wing parties.”
--Expressing reservations about the 'Suspension Bill,' which would allow suspending MKs on ideological grounds, MK Benny Begin tells how his father was suspended in the Fifties.**

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You Must Be Kidding: 
A gay Iranian poet who fled his homeland after harassment and arrest has requested asylum in Israel.*

"In my farewell letter to the (Foreign) Ministry I wrote: 'The government leaders have endorsed policies that outrage me… I have a hard time explaining them honestly.' I did not expect that after five years, over the course of which we faced two wars and two elections, Israel’s situation would deteriorate beyond recognition."
--Former Israeli diplomat Ilan Baruch examines where Israel has gone in the last five years and where it needs to go.*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Investigator: You’re sure Sharaf was with you during that terror attack?
Tamimi: Yes, I’m sure Sharaf was with us.
Investigator: You’re lying, because he had a broken leg.
Tamimi: He may have had a broken leg. I don’t remember.
Investigator: Maybe he was with you only in planning to attack the military outpost, but not during the execution?
Tamimi: I’m sure he took part in the planning but by God I don’t remember if he was there at the execution, because you say he had a broken leg.
--A report by Haaretz+'s Chaim Levinson reveals how the IDF military prosecution, headed by Lt. Col. Maurice Hirsch, a resident of the settlement Efrat, continues to have detained Palestinians questioned after they have proven to be false witnesses, who have incriminated innocent people. Those people, who are held in prison for months during the proceedings, sometimes agree to plea bargains just to be sure they will get out of jail.**

You Must Be Kidding: 
"Netanyahu is the leader of the Israbluff camp. Everything about him is pretend. In the next election campaign we [Yisrael Beytenu] will not pledge our support to you as prime minister. We are the true Right, the real nationalist camp -- not you."
--Hardline right-wing leader of Yisrael Beiteinu, MK Avigdor Lieberman, said Netanyahu isn't right-wing enough.**

--Said Prof. Ami Volansky, former Education Ministry chief scientist, who was ousted by far right-wing Education Minister Naftali Bennett. Bennett also cancelled Volansky's racism index project, whose goal was to enable teachers or principals to measure the level of racism in their classroom or school, and then devise ways of dealing with it.