Yair Lapid Quotes
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The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.
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Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.
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Orthodox Jews often ask you: "Are you an Israeli first, or a Jew?" I see no difference between the two. After all, I'm also simultaneously the son of my parents, the husband of my wife and the father of my children.
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The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.
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Israel is a long way from facing a threat to its very existence. We are too strong, both economically and militarily, for that. If anything threatens Israel, it is this form of paranoid thought that makes us think: "Oh God, they're going to kill us in two seconds! What should we do?"
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When I introduced my economic plan for the first time, people had mixed views because it's the largest cut in the history of Israeli budgets. We have a big deficit caused by the fact that the former government took upon itself too many obligations.
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There is a wind of change, and if there is a wind of change on domestic issues, there is going to be a wind of change on Palestinian issues as well, it's not something done in one leap, it's a triple jump, but it's coming.
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I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more.
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If you ask me 'What is the one great move you can make to improve the Israeli economy?' of course it will be signing an agreement with the Arab world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This will change everything.
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When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours."
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There is a difference between a small community being herded into a park and murdered and all of these communities joining forces to make sure that something like that will not happen again.
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The majority of Israelis want change, the Netanyahu era is coming to an end. That's not because security issues don't matter but because social and economic issues are dominating the agenda.
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is the biggest problem, but small problems shape the daily lives of Israelis. Unless there happens to be a war going on, the Arab-Israeli conflict is irrelevant in daily life.