"We're still in shock. If we would have known, we would have immediately stopped them. It's not like we lack troubles. We're against such acts. This shooting helps with nothing but destroys everything. Now everyone will attack us."
--Relative of one of the Arab-Israeli assailants (Palestinian citizens of Israel) who killed two Israeli Border Police Friday on the Temple Mount.*

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"The High Court is the epitome of dictatorship, because no candidate has submitted his own nomination to the Nominations Committee. Did you see a job that nobody wants to present his candidacy? This is a dictatorship and the reign of terror, every (judge) is afraid that if he presents his candidacy he will be punished.”
—Likud MK Nurit Koren expressed opposition to the meticulously followed custom by which the eldest justice of Israel’s High Court automatically becomes Chief Justice. (The system is said to prevent harmful infighting at the court.)**

"I carry the scars of fighting on my body and know how to distinguish between good and evil, between right and wrong, and when the use of weapons is appropriate and when it is inappropriate. I was appalled when seeing cases in which force was used and lives were taken not in accordance to proper moral measures and standards.”
----In an exit interview published Monday on the official army website, former IDF deputy chief of staff Maj. Gen. Yair Golan called on soldiers and officers to speak out on moral issues and improper use of force.*  

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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu shelved an investigative initiative by the previous military advocate general, which recommended establishing a panel to investigate incidents where Israeli forces used massive firepower during the 2014 Gaza war, killing many innocent Palestinian civilians, including on 'Black Friday.'**

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"The time has come to dry up the [resources] used by leftist organizations that undermine the government, slander Israel and try to infringe on its right to defend itself. We must block their funding sources and prevent them from undermining the country."
--Likud MK Miki Zohar proposed a bill to bar foreign donations to Israeli human and civil rights organizations. 

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A far-right Israeli extremist was released from house arrest after his grandmother kicked him out. No one checked with her before issuing the order of where he would be placed.