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" I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts. "
Yair Lapid
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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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" 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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" The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "
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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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" Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world's smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others. "
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" People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics. "
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Always
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Showing
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" I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it. "
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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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