You Must Be Kidding: 
  "This is Deputy Minister Yaron Mazuz. I ask for your support in the coming primaries on February 5. With the help of God we will act and succeed. I'm sitting next to my friend Elor Azaria, who we recruited for the primaries campaign and with God's help we will act and succeed. Thank you very much."
--Israel's Deputy Environment Minister Yaron Mazuz uses convicted killer Elor Azaria to get Likud members' support in his run for the Likud list.**

“Ultimately, Israel is a microcosm of the United States. You don’t have neo-Nazis in Israel, but there are many other aspects of racism. In the movie, a white guy meets a black guy and plays with his kid in the supermarket, and this leads to a blowup. If the film had been set in Israel, it could have been an encounter between a Jew and an Arab or between an Ashkenazi and a Mizrahi, or between a religious person and a secular person.”
—Israeli director Guy Nattiv, whose short film, ‘Skin,’ about the skinhead world and racism in America was nominated for an Oscar.*

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--Number of Knesset seats the Likud party will lose if Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is indicted on briber charges, according to a poll.

“It’s not shameful to strive for peace.”
—Slogan in new campaign video clip of political hopeful, Benny Gantz.*

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“This does not mean the Holocaust in the meaning of the attack on the Jewish people but as an expression of deep hatred. It's a call for the destruction and devastation of the rival team."
--Spokesman for Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team, Erez Naaman, said in defense of his team, whose supporters chanted “Holocaust chants” against fans of the rival team during a derby last week, as well as throwing objects onto the field.*

"In Kafr Qassem, they respect me and make sure that we finish every game before Shabbat begins and that we finish every training or game at an hour so that I'll get home without being under pressure."
--Religious Jewish Israeli soccer player Ohad Edelstein talks about why he's playing with Kafr Qassem, a Muslim Arab Israeli soccer team, for the third season straight.*

"We have a blood alliance, but just as importantly, we have a life alliance. We need to make sure that we build this partnership and this alliance together, as it should be."
--The most sought after candidate in the Israeli elections campaign, Benny Gantz, made his first political statement against the coalition's controversial Jewish Nation-State Law and in support of Israel's Druze minority, which considers it discriminating and insulting.*