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" Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran? "

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" Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world. "

Yair Lapid

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Teachers

" Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem. "

" Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud. "

" Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth. "

" If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy. "

" Facts cannot be replaced by opinion. "

" Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen. "

" Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits. "

" People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews. "

Yair Lapid

Need

Complex

" Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation. "

" Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion. "

" I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then. "

" As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers. "

" The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions. "

" Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will not be divided. "

" Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot. "

" 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. "

" When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case. "

" I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me. "

Yair Lapid

Sabbath

You

" I studied math, and I was terrible at it. "

" The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost. "

" Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road. "

" Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks. "

" The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does. "

" 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. "

" I feel we're at risk that a whole generation of young Israelis, who went to the army, work hard, pay taxes, one day will look around and say, 'Hey, this country is going nowhere.' "

" Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close. "

" 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. "

" If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then. "

" Social revolutions are never simple. "