"Their voices usually go unheard. They do not appear on talk shows, and television series on Islam are not interested in them...We’d rather have two-bit interpreters of religious law who shout “death to the West..."
--Haaretz's Zvi Bar'el writes how the Western media neglects the Muslim majority.

"In the reality of a far-off peace, in which you depend like a puppet on the goodwill of Big Brother, all you have left is to bark, and perhaps to exact a price on Big Brother's image."
--Maariv's Jacky Khugy explains why the Palestinian Authority believes that suing Israel in The Hague is an appropriate Palestinian revenge in an interesting analysis.**

 "I leave the film with the feeling that it can be better here between human beings if we would give every person the equal right to be different..."

--Former president Shimon Peres after watching the film 'Dancing Arabs,' based on the roughly autobiographical book by Sayed Kashua about being a young Arab at a Jewish boarding school in Israel.**

"Herzog can’t compete with this unequivocal extremism. The messages he’s sending on diplomatic and security issues are too complex. After all, he truly believes in a two-state solution, but that will entail far-reaching concessions encompassing most of the territories — essentially, a withdrawal to the 1967 lines with territorial swaps. And go explain that to the people on the eve of an election."
--Haaretz+ economic analyst says that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's approach of managing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rather than resolving it will ultimately lead to Israel's economic collapse.**

785.
--Number of Israelis who renounced their citizenship in 2014, a 65% increase over the previous year.**

"Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requests that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet."
--Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid launches a personal attack on the Prime Minister.**

"The Palestinian issue was and remains the number one problem of Israel, and it will also be an important challenge, possibly the existential one, of Israel in 2015."
--Maariv's security analyst Yossi Melman sums up Israel's security challenges of 2014, writing that Hamas is no longer a terror organization and that without a peace agreement two things can happen - and neither of them is good.**

4 million.
--The amount of shekels approved by the Foreign Ministry to pay a Likud-members-led nonprofit company called Faces of Israel to host overseas visitors “with influence” and “explain the legitimacy of Zionism and the State of Israel as the nation of the Jewish people" - i.e. the Foreign Ministry’s job.**

50.

--The number of Palestinian youth killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2014 after the shooting in the heart of Imam Jamil Ahmed Dweikat, 17, yesterday.**