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 “It’s called ‘not harming innocents,' that’s what they call it (...and it) is spreading like wildfire.”
--Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, a leading settler rabbi and head of an IDF pre-conscription academy at Eli settlement, denounced the army's efforts to avoid harming Palestinian civilian noncombatants.**

“In an army in which Eyal Karim is the chief rabbi, there is no reason that Gidi Orsher won’t be the film critic.”
--MK Issawi Freij (Meretz) and right-wing Yedioth commentator Ben-Dror Yemini both write that it is unreasonable that a film critic who wrote a Facebook post ridiculing superstitious Mizrachi Jews be suspended from the IDF's Army Radio and a rabbi who expressed support for soldiers' raping female goyim during war and expressed opposition to women serving in the army and testifying in court be appointed IDF chief military rabbi.* (Maariv and Yedioth)

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Israeli forces reportedly handed out parking tickets to Palestinian journalists in an attempt to keep them from entering an area where activists and villagers acted to stop Israeli bulldozers from leveling privately-owned Palestinian agricultural land owned.**

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"(It is permitted to "breach" the walls of modesty and) "satisfy the evil inclination by lying with attractive Gentile women against their will, out of consideration for the difficulties faced by the soldiers and for overall success."
 -- Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim, who was announced on Monday as the IDF's intended new chief rabbi, has expressed support in the past for rape of Palestinian women.*

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Some of the wet (organic) waste sorted out by hundreds of thousands of Israeli households in the belief it would be recycled into compost was instead being dumped in the West Bank, north of Jericho, Haaretz+ reported.**

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“During the afternoon shift we launched an activity in Isawiyah to create friction with the residents.”
--Statement from a police report about how Border Police initiate “friction” with residents of East Jerusalem to provoke a violent response from them.***

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A donation drive met its 400,000 shekel target within 12 hours. Those who donated 500 shekels get a tour of the right-wing Channel 20 studios and a lecture about the media.
--An Internet donation drive was created to help pay lawyer's fees for Elor Azariya, the ‘Shooting Soldier from Hebron,’ who is on trial on manslaughter charges after shooting dead an already wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant in Hebron.

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"I have thought about it since yesterday and in order for him to be able to improve his defense, my wife or I may do this today. It definitely may happen."
--Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) said he may donate to the fund.

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El-Al security barred Arab-Israeli violinist Hisham Khoury from taking his instrument on board as carry-on luggage on the flight from Berlin to Tel-Aviv.
--Khoury said he told the security officers they were welcome to X-ray the violin or search it manually, but they refused. They also asked questions, “like how much I earn and why I’m returning to Israel. I reminded them that I’m an Israeli citizen; my parents live in Haifa, and I’m returning home.” Khoury took a different flight home with a German airline. (See and hear him play on the suspicious violin here.)

"A clear moral line passes between the emotional hooligan conduct of [the father of Elor Azariya, the 'Shooting Soldier'] Charlie Azariya and between the rational conduct of Col. Ben-Ezra and Maj. Naaman [who testified against Azariya.] The same tense line exists between the facts and the nationalist gut feelings, and between the populist support Netanyahu and Lieberman gave to the shooter just after the incident and between the weak backup (against “all uniform wearers”) that they gave following the threats heard against Maj. Naaman. And that is the same line that is stretched between the actions of most of the IDF combat soldiers and between the modus operandi of Elor Azariya and the stars of other video clips that embarrass and shame Israel. On either side of this line are two States of Israel, which are enemy states."
--Insightful Op-Ed by Yonatan Yavin in today's Yedioth. Well-worth reading.*
  "The point of 'never again' is that Jewish people use the trauma and lessons of the Holocaust to speak out against dangerous forces and trends. First and foremost, this means criticizing their own Jewish neighbors or government. The Israelis who do so prove their moral rigor. Not only is the Germany/Israel comparison valid, but it is the ethical inheritance of the Holocaust. If Israel really is the only real democracy in the Middle East with 'the most moral army in the world,' then it can surely stand up to the strictest ethical tests."
-- David Sarna Galdi writes in Haaretz+ that comparing Israel today with Germany of the '30's is not about precise factual parallels, but about the expression of fear from seeing one's country creeping toward belligerent nationalism.**

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TV SKETCH: The Ugandan soldier who killed Yoni Netanyahu at Entebbe becomes a hero in his country, much like Yoni Netanyahu became a hero in Israel, and his brother is elected to serve as prime minister of Uganda thanks, in part, to his brother's popularity.
--Last night on his Channel 10 show, 'Good Night,' audacious TV host Assaf Harel dared to point his satire at Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. [Israel Hayom said Harel “mocked” Yoni’s death, but more correctly he mocked Binyamin’s rise. – OH] ***