“If you want to be a hero, you don't kill an innocent woman."
--Imprisoned Fatah official explained why all the Palestinian militant factions have turned their backs on the rapist and murderer of the 19-year-old Israeli young woman.*

"There is no religion and no human being who can accept what happened,"
--Ziyad Sabateen, a resident of Husan village near Bethlehem. Sabateen is among a group of Palestinians who will pay a condolence visit today to the Ansbacher family.*

"It doesn't really matter who is behind the wheel, as long as he is responsible like she is."
--Passenger on Israeli Egged public bus said about the first Muslim woman from E. Jerusalem to drive an Egged bus.*

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75.
The number of votes that Minister Zeev Elkin won for the Likud party primaries at the polling station in a Jewish settlement enclave in Hebron, despite there being only 67 voters.**

"It's unreasonable to me that there's a government in which the culture minister attacks the institutions she's responsible for. The justice minister attacks the institutions she's responsible for. The internal security minister attacks the institutions he's responsible for. The Cabinet attacks the IDF, and the prime minister attacks everyone."
--Former chief of staff and Chairman of 'Hosen L'Yisrael' party, Benny Gantz in exclusive interview with Yedioth.

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The World Zionist Organization's Settlement Division used Israeli public funds to provide a mortgage for a settlement home belonging to Gilad Ach, who heads the Ad Kan nongovernmental organization, which employs undercover agents tasked with infiltrating left-wing organizations and documenting their operations from the inside, Kerem Navot, a group working to prevent the dispossession of Palestinian West Bank land, revealed. Construction in this settlement, Eli, is illegal under Israeli law since a master plan for it was never approved. The entire settlement of Eli is therefore illegal and none of its houses have permits, Haaretz+ reported.

"I know who your politicians are, listen to reports about your military plans with great interest, but I am most interested in learning about life in Israel, how the society is structured, Sephardi versus Ashkenazi. Adults and young people, trends, culture, even your legal world fascinates me."
--A well-placed academic in Iran has an illuminating conversation with Yedioth's Muslim world correspondent, Smadar Perry.

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Habayit Hayehudi leader, MK Bezalel Smotrich, said his party would give immunity from criminal proceedings to soldiers who were indicted today for beating a detained Palestinian father and his son. According to the indictment, the soldiers removed the son's blindfold "so that he would see how they were hitting" his father. The father's injuries were so severe that he was unable to be questioned and required medical care for 3 days.*

"I have looked in-depth at today's self-absorbed leadership. It is not interested in you, and not in us. Believe me, I am very proud of our country and will never be ashamed of it. But lately more and more people, both right and left, myself included, are deeply embarrassed by the way our leadership conducts itself. A strong government governs to unite and doesn’t govern in order to separate, to rule."
--Candidate for Prime Minister of Israel, Benny Gantz, in his first political speech, which wowed most commentators, and upset the right-wing.*

"Blip."
--What Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called the High Court-ordered eviction of settlers from a settlement outpost built on privately-owned Palestinian land.*

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An Israeli military court took orders from the Ofer Prison commander to ban two lawyers of Palestinian prisoners from bringing their cellphones into the prison. One of the lawyers had earlier used her phone at the request of the court to document the facial injuries her client received from the beatings of the prison guards during the raid on prisoners earlier this month.*