“The outline that the Government of Israel invented is based on a crime. They are transferring the people of Amona, who squatted on private property, to private property of other Palestinians."
--Adv. Michael Sfard of Yesh Din, legal rights organization.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
"I’ll never come back to this place."
--A text message that the co-CEO of the Abraham Fund, an Israeli Jewish-Arab co-existence and equality organization, received from Maqsood Ahmed, a co-leader of Muslim Hands organization and who was decorated by Queen Elizabeth for improving interfaith relations. Ahmed wrote it on his way from the Shin Bet holding cell at Ben-Gurion Airport to the airplane after he was held overnight and refused entry to Israel to participate in Muslim Jewish co-existence activities at the invitation of The Abraham Fund.**

“In the Diaspora, the handful of rabbis did not damage Jewish identity, whereas today in Israel a swarm of rabbis practice as spiritual guides humming in our ears from circumcision to the grave. Many of them are immune to criticism, even if they are thieves, rapists, racist instigators, or attackers of IDF soldiers, as they relentlessly conspire to undermine democratic institutions. As secular law—which is becoming weaker day by day—tries to restrain them, these rabbis receive the support of Hassidic followers, politicians or corrupt government leaders smelling of fascism, who are ready to sell the good of the country for personal gain. Against the defiled trinity of corrupt government, devouring wealth and a violent messianic religion, the people stand helpless, paralyzed and confused.”
--Renowned Israeli author and President of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Sami Michael, 90, writes in a biting Op-Ed examining where the country has gone since he immigrated in 1951 full of hope.**

“Money goes to Jewish education in Honolulu and to Amona (outpost). The method doesn’t work.”
--MK Eli Alaluf, chairman of the Knesset Labor and Social Welfare Committee, blamed the government for the poverty of one-third of the population and said he won’t run again for elections.*

Want to buy the Western Wall, board a train at Ammunition Hill and wait a turn because the street is closed after a zebra escaped the Biblical Zoo? Now you can with the new Jerusalem version of Hasbro's famous game. The Jerusalem municipality helped in choosing the sites. But the game does not include the non-Jewish sites in the city.

“Censors in academia deserve to be ignored, and when there is an attempt at collective institutional censorship, like here, they are worthy of being pointedly ignored.”
--Dr. Uri Weiss, a lecturer who is behind a petition signed by over 300 academics saying they will ignore any recommendations in the new ethics code over political statements in academia, which was commissioned last week by Education Minister Naftali Bennett.*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
"I'd rather the Arabs don't go to the polls in droves, and don't come to the polls at all." 
--Coalition Chairman MK David Bitan (Likud) in an anti-democratic statement at a public event Saturday.**