-- MK Ytzchak Goldknopf, in advance of the Haredi car protest

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  -- MK Dan ilouz (Likud)

not sure how he expects the Likud to be able to form a coalition if he thinks the Likud should work against some of its national partners. Whatever you might think about those partners, the Likud needs them at this point... Netanyahu created this fiction of blocs back when we were in a series of re-elections and it has worked well for him, and he should be the one to dismantle it rather than be dragged around by others, but right now he cannot as he has no other options... maybe that is something he should deal with, but util he does, his bloc is his only option...

  -- MK Aryeh Deri

  -- Alan Dershowitz

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  -- Defense Minister Yisrael Katz

whoa, that's a serious statement... I hope he weighed his words.. we will probably see the Cenks and Tuckers scream now about Israel occupying Lebanon...

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  -- Former Chief Rabbi Rav Shlomo Amar, regarding the idea of opening the Rabbanut tests to women

There are many people out there who think this would be a great idea and improvement....

  -- Rav Yitzchak Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel

  -- Yair Golan, Chairman of the Democrats Party

you can disagree on priroties of spending, you can be against funding settlements...but are "settlers" not working people? for the most part they are. The vast majority of them work and serve in the army

  -- USA President Donald Trump

I know the US provided some funding and some other involvement but I thought the technology development was Israeli.. is Trump taking credit inappropriately or is he correct in some way?

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  -- MK Meir Porush (UTJ)

Porush can always be counted on for putting on a good show in Knesset....

  -- Finance Miister Betzalel Smotritch

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-- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

wow

first, I admit I had to look up the word autarkic.

Is such a thing possible in today's world? PM Netanyahu is supposedly the financial world so let's hope he has a way this can be done. Manufacturing arms in Israel never seemed like a bad idea but going to full isolation in a global economy does not sound as much of a good idea. Is it the realistic situation and not just a direction he is taking us? Seemingly but it is also happening and being foisted on us due to the never-ending war he is leading with no diplomacy out there trying to mitigate the damage of such a long war, of attacks on civilians, churches and aid workers, let alone civilians, and all the other criticisms we have failed to deal with, focusing only on getting along with President Trump and letting the rest of the world (including much of the USA) fall by the wayside.

Good luck to us all

  -- Finance Minister Betzalel Smotritch said this to Mayor of Jerusalem Moshe Lion, yesterday at a conference memorializing Rav Kook 

ok, let's say what happens with this!

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  -- Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu

good? bad? if you agree with the sentiment expressed you can't really be upset that the world (including the ilk of Piers Morgan) gets upset that it looks like Israel is trying to wipe out Gaza and kill tens of thousands of children... the ministers of the government repeatedly say that this is their intention and objective...

  -- Defense Minister Yisrael Katz

we have heard this threat of the gates of hell opening many times. Has this become a version of the Haredi parties threat to topple the government if a draft law is not passed by date x?

And considering what Gaza looks like, I wonder what it will look like once the gates of hell open on it!

  -- Mayor of Ramat Gan Carmel Shama HaCohen after an Iranian missile landed a direct hit this morning on a local building

  -- Minister of Transportation Miri Regev, about working on a plan to bring stranded Israelis home.

lol.. 

  -- MK Yitzchak Pindrus (UTJ)

I dont know what he should have said, but saying this isnt going to garner any sympathy for the Haredi position ....

  -- Minister Yoav Ben Tzur when asked at the Hurvitz Conference about politicians calling each other traitor..

I agree. I think the goal should be for a national unity government after the next elections, whenever they will be and no matter who heads the largest party. Nobody likes a good troll more than me but the politics in government has gotten so divisive in recent years that this is the most dangerous threat to Israeli society, I think, and is more important to repair than probably most other issues. The only way is by working together in good faith.

As an aside, I wonder if Ben Tzur, who is form the Shas party, is indicating anything in this statement about upcoming elections. With the Haredi deadline to Netanyahu fast approaching regarding the Haredi draft law, is Ben Tzur talking about working together with right and left because he knows we are about to go to elections?

And Are Shas and UTJ considered Zionist parties? Maybe. They do both (Shas officially and UTJ unofficially (and they even deny the unofficially aspect of it) ) participate in WZO which requires a declaration of being Zionist...

  -- Former Chief Rabbi of Israel Rav Yitzchak Yosef, regarding the recent news that the IDF will start enforcing the existing laws and search for people who have not reported for duty

I dont think this is as big a threat as he thinks it is...