"Olmert's sentence has turned the page on the process of cleaning house and irradiating corruption from Israeli politics."
--Meretz Chairwoman MK Zehava Gal-On on former prime minister Ehud Olmert's six year prison sentence.**

Israeli police were "looking into the circumstances of how (the settlers) accidentally entered Burin." 
--Israel Police Spokesman says armed Israeli settlers driving ATVs inside a Palestinian village was unintentional. Locals detained the settlers and handed them over to Palestinian security forces.** 

"I ask myself to what evil and dangerous depths will the hate yet descend, and if we will succeed at living productive, peace-filled lives without hatred for the stranger. Holding on to these complicated emotions, I begin the "chevruta" with Dr. Tibi."
--Dr. Ruchama Weiss shares insights from a Torah-studying session with Arab MK Ahmed Tibi.**

"Seemingly, the only difference from our neo-Nazi groups is that (ours) enjoy the support of a significant number of nationalist, perhaps even racist, lawmakers, and rabbis who give them what is in my eyes, a pseudo-religious basis [for their actions]."
--Israeli author Amos Oz says Israeli 'hilltop youth' are 'Hebrew neo-Nazis' who have more support than Europe's neo-Nazis.*

"King David is for the Jews, Jesus is garbage."

--Graffiti found on a Jerusalem church this morning, the day after the Vatican called on Israel to protect Christian sites.**

"The Iranian nuclear program will only be operational in another 10 years."
 --Former Israel Atomic Energy Commission chief, Brig.-Gen. Uzi Eilam, disputes Prime Minister Binaymin Netanyahu's claims of an immediate Iranian threat.**

"By the end of the week, we learned that his teacher was instructing the kids why we were about to mark the upcoming holidays. 'The Arabs started a war,' our son told us."
--Haaretz writer Ilene Prusher on education in Israeli society after her son came home from nursery school with a tank he made in honor of Memorial Day and Independence Day.**

"All that pioneering energy would have gone to the Negev and the Galilee..(there would have been a) different demographic balance that would have strengthened Israel."

--Security expert Amos Yadlin answers Yedioth's question: what if Likud had not won the elections in '77.**

"There's no such thing as 'can't do' in the Shin Bet, just 'don't want.'"
-- Former Shin Bet head Carmi Gillon tells audience a cultural event in Beersheva why the 'price-tag' attackers have not been caught.**

"Netanyahu is completing the series of racist laws that have been emerging in recent years and is leading Israel to become the first racial state of the 21st century."

--MK Mohammed Barakeh, head of Hadash party on Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's plan to "legally anchor" Israel's status as "the nation-state of the Jewish people."**