"This is a reckless step of a government that seems to be determined to ruin the possibility for a two-state solution. If passed, this bill will constitute a de facto annexation and a clear step toward a de jure annexation."
--Peace Now on the bill seeking to annex key - and distant - settlements to Jerusalem.*

"It is deeply worrying that the military terminology used by senior officials in the Strategic Affairs Ministry is being used in the fight against civilians abroad who criticize the State of Israel."
-- Attorney Eitay Mack, who over the past year, has asked the state to reveal information about a judicial arm it is secretly operating abroad against BDS activists.**

“Did Netanyahu say he hoped the State of Israel would last 100 years? If that’s what he meant, that the state would keep a prime minister suspected of criminal offenses while its elected representatives ensure no one could touch him—I’m not sure we want the remaining years.”
—Senior Yedioth political commentator, Sima Kadmon, in a sharp Op-Ed on the legislative bill aiming to prohibit investigating a prime minister.*

Quote of the day #2:
“It hasn’t been even a day since the Knesset has resumed, and we are already embarrassed."
--Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid on the legislative bill aiming to prohibit investigating a prime minister.**

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Two weeks after Israeli Police seized olives from a settler who was stealing them from Palestinian land, the police inform the Palestinian owner that they have the olives and he must prove that they belong to him.***

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Front Page:

"A criminal suspect maneuvers an entire country into endless twists and turns in his efforts to evade the terror of justice and create for himself a royal house in Jerusalem."
--Maariv political commentator Ben Caspit writes about the series of legislative bills meant to empower Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who faces numerous corruption investigations.*

"What I’m about to write is difficult, and it’s important for me that you read it to the end, even if you end up losing sleep over it, as I hope it will prompt you to do something."
--In an Op-Ed on Yedioth's front page, the former commander of the Northern Command, Major-General (res.) Amiram Levin, warns Israelis that the Netanyahu government is dragging the country into war.*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
“Good morning.”
The Facebook post written in Arabic by a Palestinian worker last week, for which he was arrested by Israel Police because they relied on automatic translation software, which erroneously translated the post. Facebook translated “good morning” as “attack them” in Hebrew and “hurt them” in English.**

You Must Be Kidding: 
At the last minute, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat cancelled a meeting between senior city officials, police officers and representatives of the Isawiyah neighborhood parents committee in E. Jerusalem, which was meant to end a school strike declared by the parents, during which the neighborhood’s 4,300 pupils have been out of class. According to the parents, Border Police forces have been entering the neighborhood daily at about the time the children are let out of school and deliberately positioning themselves near the schools to provoke disturbances.

Quote of the day:

—Arab Israeli MK Issawi Frej (Meretz), who lives in Kafr Qassem, was one of a group of Arab-Israeli officials who paid a condolence visit to the family of Reuven (Moti) Shmerling, a settler from Elkana who owned a storehouse in the Arab-Israeli town and was murdered there two weeks ago.**

"His remarks also emit a strong whiff of nationalism. Gabbay didn’t promise not to sit in the same government with representatives of the far right. So why was it important to him to rule out, in advance and under any circumstances, only the Joint List – the authentic representative of most of the country’s Arab citizens?"
--Haaretz Editorial questions Labor party chief, Avi Gabbay, for saying he would not form a coalition government with the mostly-Arab Joint List faction.*

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