Israel has suddenly become the Land of 1,000 Apologies.

Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, is seven months away, but it seems as if everyone is saying sorry to everyone else.

Over the weekend, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert apologized to Christians offended by an Israeli TV skit that mocked Jesus as too fat to walk on water and depicted his mother, Mary, as a pregnant teenager. (The show drew a sharp protest from the Vatican.) 

This week, Arab-Israelis are up-in-arms over an episode of "Survivor" (the Israeli version) in which one of the contestants names one of his shoes "Mohammed" and openly mocks a dismissed Arab-Israeli competitor on the show.

Last week, the head of the Israeli military, IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, personally and formally apologized to Turkey after a top Israeli military leader said that Turkey had no business criticizing Israel because of its own bloody history.

That followed reports of a personal apology from Israeli President Shimon Peres to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the wake of their very public Davos disagreement over Gaza, a flare-up that sparked an ongoing feud between the two nations.

And, today, Israel's ousted chief negotiator on a Hamas-Israel cease fire, Amos Gilad, met with Olmert today to personally apologize for openly criticizing the PM, a move that led to his dismissal as diplomatic point man over the Gaza truce and undermined relations with Egypt, which is taking the lead role in mediating between Hamas and Israel.

"The remarks were unjustified, were said in error and it would have been better if they had not been said," Gilad said in a statement released by Olmert's office after the meeting.

That public act of contrition reportedly led Olmert to reinstate Gilad as chief negotiator.

If things keep going like this, no one will have anything to atone for when Yom Kippur comes around...