Yair Lapid Quotes
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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Judaism is a whole line of values that have existed for thousands of years, but the democratic idea is a new idea, and significant parts of it stand in contradiction to Judaism.
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Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will not be divided.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.
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I don't think Israel's becoming more religious, I think its politics is becoming more religious. There's a difference.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're Jewish. This is both a furious and vulnerable message.
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Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.