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" Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy. "
Yair Lapid
Society
Women
Democracy
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" The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride. "
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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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" 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 feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state. "
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" I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to politics. He's a good man, a man who cares. It's good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that. "
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" Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem. "
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Street
Personal
" People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews. "
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Need
Complex
" When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him. "
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Turn
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" Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud. "
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" How can Israel say that everyone is equal before the law - that you're equal before the law - when the law defines Judaism as the cultural, national and legislative basis for the state? "
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Everyone
Before
You
" Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York. "
Yair Lapid
New York
Today
Safe
" If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy. "
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Want
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Handle
" Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen. "
Yair Lapid
Children
Will
Want
" Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will not be divided. "
Yair Lapid
Jerusalem
Will
Divided
" 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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Fighting
Children
Work
" In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness. "
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Crime
Showing
Weakness
" The rabbis and their wives may say whatever they wish in private conversations. I may not like their views, but a person is allowed to say anything in his or her own home. "
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Person
Home
Say
" People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics. "
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Sick
Tired
Politics
" Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers. "
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Ministers
Full-Time
Citizens
" Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria. "
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Media
Check
Hysteria
" If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them. "
Yair Lapid
Proud
Woods
Beer
" The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does. "
Yair Lapid
Left
Understand
Public
" If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then. "
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Going
Change
Want
" Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation. "
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Creation
Politics
Cynical
" You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it. "
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You
Problem
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" Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together. "
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Together
Ideas
Judaism
" 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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Shape
Division
Way
" At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it. "
Yair Lapid
Need
Truth
Us
" Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road. "
Yair Lapid
Road
Creator
Hebrew
" The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength. "
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Desire
Embrace
Heart