Quote of the day:

“We must understand that things can get out of control because of the extremism that is prevalent in the area...We are all destined to live here together in this country and are not doomed to live like this.”
--President Reuven Rivlin reacted to the brutal racist attack by Jewish Israelis on three Arab Israelis at a beach and alluded to the extremist atmosphere in the country.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Shin Bet agent at Israel crossing in the Arava desert: “Is your wife pregnant?
Nadim Sarrouh, a 34-year-old German citizen, who was returning to Israel from Jordan with his wife and her family, who are Israeli citizens: “No.”
Shin Bet agent: “Okay, so she is fine, waiting in the heat.”
--Nadim Sarrouh told Haaretz+ he is accustomed to short detentions and questioning by Israeli authorities at the border, but he has never been treated and interrogated as he was on August 11, 2018.

You Must Be Kidding: 
984.
--The number of housing units in Jewish settlements in the West Bank that the Supreme Planning Committee of the Civil Administration approved. Peace Now responded: “Instead of solving the housing crisis in Israel, the government prefers to deprive most of its citizens and nurture a welfare state located beyond the Green Line."

You Must Be Kidding: 
An Israeli military court in the West Bank sentenced Waed Tamimi, the brother of the well-known former Palestinian teen prisoner Ahed Tamimi, to 14 months in prison for throwing stones at Israeli Border Police, the same amount of time that former soldier Elor Azaria sat in prison, for shooting in the head and killing an already shot, injured and incapacitated Palestinian assailant.**

Quote of the day:

"The man who has influenced generations of (Israeli) journalists and editors, his political and social-political assessments have been proven right again and again, he has fought institutional corruption even before there was a 'media' and before it became a norm, and he preferred morality and combat ethics over victorious victories and territorial achievements…Avnery is also the man who has never been awarded the Israel Prize for Media, which signifies everything about him, about the media and about Israeli society."
--Maariv journalist Ran Edelist parts from journalist, intellectual and peace activist, Uri Avnery.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
No less than 9,120 curses and calls for violence against the Druze have been located on the Internet in the three weeks following the approval of the Nation-State law.**