"I really hope we won't get to that point because it will be a tsunami for Israeli soccer."
--Former Israel Soccer Association chief Yaakov Arel said the FIFA vote whether to suspend Israel

"I'm not opposed to talking with anyone who is willing to talk."
--Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said he was not opposed to speaking with Hamas to solve the situation in Gaza.**

"It is time we internalize that the Palestinians have changed their strategy; they realized the cannot beat Israel with force, so they have shifted their efforts to the diplomatic front."
--Says Zionist Camp MK Nachman Shai in article about how Israeli diplomacy is being silenced because MKs of this almost evenly divided Knesset are severely restricted in traveling abroad.**

"The elections are over, Arabs, get out of our sight. The politicians’ Knesset speeches upon the presentation of the government went off the air on all three TV channels when it was Odeh’s turn to speak. Was this any worse than what Netanyahu said on Election Day about Arabs 'voting in droves'?"
--Haaretz commentator Yitzhak Laor laments how the media and the liberals in Israel only remember the Arab citizens during election time.**

"In our country, the 'Other' is important to me event if he isn't Jewish,"
--President Reuven Rivlin tells students at a Jewish high school in Jerusalem where he made a surprise visit Thursday.**

"Forget separate buses. Double-decker buses! But we're on top."
--Assaf Appelboim, one of many Israelis to Tweet on the program to prevent Palestinians from traveling on buses in West Bank buses.**

“Today, in the party, when you use words like democracy, human rights and rule of law, they immediately depict you as a leftist.”
--Ex senior Likud minister says Likud is becoming much more nationalistic and less attentive to its liberal side.**

“The chance that a complaint submitted to the Israel Police by a Palestinian will lead to an effective investigation, the location of a suspect, prosecution, and ultimate conviction is just 1.9 percent.”
--Yesh Din, Israeli legal rights organization, reveals disturbing picture of the conduct of law enforcement in general and the police in particular when it comes to Palestinians complaints.**

“It doesn’t seem like she’ll intervene in content. This is a democratic state. I don’t see this happening, and don’t believe they’ll intervene in the content of art, because there’s no such thing.”

-- Yaakov Mendel, chairman of the Israeli Union of Performing Artists, said he had trouble believing the Culture and Sports Ministry would actually implement the censorship policy its new minister, MIri Regev, suggested.**

"After the appointments of Miri Regev as Minister of Culture and Danny Danon as Minister of Science and Space we're only lacking Benny Gopstein of [anti-Arab] LEHAVA to be appointed Minister for Regional Peace Issues."
--Singer Aviv Geffen tweets his shock at Netanyahu’s choices for ministers.**