President Herzog's pardoning of Elor Azaria is hardly a surprise to anyone who has been watching the Israeli public's response to extrajudicial and vigilante killings of Palestinians, which continue to be carried out and captured on film

'We believe we were the target,' said the synagogue's rabbi after a man shot a police officer outside a synagogue in Belleville on Sunday. 'It's Yom Kippur. There's obviously a good number of Jewish people inside the synagogue. It's an easy target'

'It is time for someone from outside who is not bound by the old conceptions,' Ben-Gvir said, adding that he wants to ease the IDF's rules of engagement, making it easier for soldiers to open fire at Palestinians