“It started in his family, which was swept up in the incitement around it and which raised a boy who shot an injured helpless person – practically corpse abuse – and it continued with the education system that doesn’t deal with the problem of semi-fascist content in the guise of patriotism, and then the political establishment, which incited a soldier who is unable to cope with the ongoing brainwashing, and it continued to publicly support the criminal act, and then the IDF, which ignored the wounded [Palestinian] man, who was injured and left in the street and killed like a dog.”
--Maariv commentator Ran Adelist writes that Elor Azariya, the young Israeli man serving in the IDF who shot in the head Abdul Fattah al-Sharif, an already wounded incapacitated Palestinian young man, was not the only one guilty for the execution for which Azariya is being sentenced today.*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Israeli police are now demanding that Palestinians caught entering Israel illegally pay thousands of shekels for private security firms to escort them to subsequent court hearings inside Israel.**

Israel's Compensation Grabbing Law (Haaretz Editorial) The compensation Raba’a Ali Satal received in the wake of her husband’s death by decision of the court is unconnected to the Absentee Property Law. Any other decision is a moral stain. 
The horrific one-state vision (Ben-Dror Yemini, Yedioth/Ynet) The Israeli Right is insisting on portraying Israel as a rejectionist, fueling the BDS industry of lies and enacting laws with zero benefit and endless damage.
Confirm Friedman: He is the PERFECT envoy to Israel in the time of Trump (Chemi Shalev, Haaretz+) The assault on the ambassador-designate enables his critics to avoid the new reality. 
Meeting of the three egos: Trump left the responsibility with us (Yitzhak Ben-Ner, Maariv) We have always sought a friendly super-leader, who will make the critical decisions for us, so that we can reject them. How will our elected officials take advantage of the rare golden opportunity to decide for themselves? 
Netanyahu Should Have Given Kerry a Kiss (Raviv Drucker, Haaretz+) A year ago Benjamin Netanyahu received from then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry the most perfect expression of the two-state solution. Clearly the premier was not serious in his intentions. 
All the president’s enemies (Sever Plocker, Yedioth/Ynet) It won’t be long before Trump implies that the Jews themselves are stimulating anti-Semitism in the US in order to undermine his presidency. 
Jerusalem's 'Landlords' Are Digging Away Again (Nir Hasson, Haaretz+) An Israel Antiquities Authority project involves an effort to increase the Jewish presence in a Palestinian neighborhood lying just below the Al-Aqsa mosque and to assert religious influence over archaeological finds. 
Strategic Question: The Israeli interest is a moderate Iran, not a threatened Iran (Sima Shine, Maariv) Changing the policy of the Islamic Republic will be realized only if more moderate voices prevail there. In this respect, the Trump administration’s policy of saber rattling does not help.  
Test of faith: imposing a penalty on Elor Azariya will crush the people's trust in the justice system (Karni Eldad, Maariv) Justice must not be made due to rating considerations, it is not the role of the court to be popular, but one does not need a law degree to know who is right and what is right to do. The simple people also have wisdom. 
I Wear a Head Scarf - Will Anyone in Israel Employ Me? (Rama Bdeer, Haaretz+) A young Arab woman discovers the pitfalls of wearing a head covering when looking for work in a shopping mall. 
The system also has to stand trial together with Elor Azariya (Ran Adelist, Maariv) How do you bridge between punishing to the full extent of the law the person who killed a wounded helpless person and between the innocence of all the systems that sent him to the crime scene? The Shooting Soldier from Hebron did not exist in a vacuum. It started in his family, which was swept up in the incitement around it, and which raised a boy who shot an injured helpless person – practically corpse abuse – and it continues with the education system that doesn’t deal with the problem of semi-fascist content in the guise of patriotism, and continues with the political establishment, which incited a soldier who is unable to cope with the ongoing brainwashing, and which continued to publicly support the criminal act, and the IDF, which ignored the wounded man [the Palestinian assailant, Abdul Fattah al-Sharif – OH] who was injured and left in the street and killed like a dog.
ISIS seeks new balance of deterrence with Israel (Amos Harel, Haaretz+) In rocket fire, ISIS' Sinai affiliate is seeking to punish Israel for its purported assistance to Egyptian security forces. For the time being, Israel has little else to do but tighten intelligence sharing with Egypt.
Why Would Jews Have a Problem With the Term 'Islamophobia'? (Mira Sucharov, Haaretz+) The decision by a major Canadian Jewish organization to oppose a parliamentary motion condemning Islamophobia after a shocking mosque attack, because the term is 'politically charged and imprecise,' has vocal challengers.