"This is a textbook that expands their education about our neighbors. If parents say such things we have a big problem." 

--Nes Tziona Mayor and Likudnik, Yossi Shabo, responds to the fiery reaction by parents after he gave the city's high school graduates a book about the history of Arabs and Islam.**

“Next time you enter this community, I’m detaining you all for disturbing the peace ... You’re known as left-wing activists, and I have no problem doing this legally, okay? I’m telling you, that’s how we’ll work starting from tomorrow.”

--What policeman Yaniv Ohana told Ta'ayush peace activists filming illegal settlement construction at the West Bank settlement outpost of Avigail.**

17.
Number of churches and mosques that have been torched in Israel and the West Bank with no one indicted in any of the cases.**

“...therefore we decided to fire a volley of shells toward the point from which he lost his life.”
--IDF Battalion commander Lt. Col. Neria Yeshurun described the shelling of a Gaza medical clinic because he and his soldiers were sorry that they could not be at the funeral of a fellow officer who was killed by fire from the clinic.**

"This is a terrorist act holding thousands of Palestinians hostage."

--Meretz party chief MK Zehava Gal-On says she won't withdraw her bill to require labeling of settlement products sold in Israel, despite settler factories' threats to fire Palestinian employees.**

761.
--The number of Palestinian civilians that Israel now says were killed in last summer's Gaza war. The IDF's figure, released for the first time since the war, is almost half of the UN number. Israel says that nearly half of the Palestinians killed were armed.**

“An army that jails [a soldier] for eating a non-kosher sandwich but finds it sufficient to reprimand and confine [soldiers to their base] for brutally beating a Palestinian, is an army whose moral compass is seriously dubious."  
-- Meretz MK Esawi Freige responds to ‘punishment’ of soldiers filmed beating Palestinian man.**

“Wanted: A culture minister. Until the person is found for the position, Chief Censor (Miri) Regev serves as the substitute.”
--Opposition leader and Zionist Camp chief MK Isaac Herzog wrote on Twitter.**

"The government doesn't have to support culture. I can decide where the money goes."
--Culture Minister Miri Regev in a meeting with Israeli artists who criticized her policy not to support art that is critical of Israel and Israeli soldiers or artists that won't perform in the West Bank.

“[Netanyahu] became a slave to a person that everyone knew from the beginning was involved in the casino business, had allegations of prostitution against him, and who uses this money to buy a foothold in Israeli politics."
--In a Facebook post that at first appears to be about shamed MK Oren Hazan, Meretz chief Zehava Gal-On reveals at the end a surprise for readers.**