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" Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion. "
Yair Lapid
Only
World
Religion
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" Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech. "
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Hate
Brother
" Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions. "
Yair Lapid
Decisions
Were
Never
" I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council. "
Yair Lapid
Friends
Ending
Discrimination
" Social revolutions are never simple. "
Yair Lapid
Simple
Never
Revolutions
" I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me. "
Yair Lapid
Sabbath
Me
You
" If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you. "
Yair Lapid
Believe
Celebrate
Dress
" You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it. "
Yair Lapid
You
Problem
Students
" Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong. "
Yair Lapid
Wrong
Class
Fine
" Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot. "
Yair Lapid
Lee
Johnson
Idiot
" 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. "
Yair Lapid
Back
Product
Holidays
" Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers. "
Yair Lapid
Ministers
Full-Time
Citizens
" The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does. "
Yair Lapid
Left
Understand
Public
" 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. "
Yair Lapid
People
Humanity
Group
" Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.' "
Yair Lapid
Needs
Before
Stand
" My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children. "
Yair Lapid
Memory
Children
Education
" The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life. "
Yair Lapid
Adult
Media
Life
" 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. "
Yair Lapid
New
New York
Jokes
" The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost. "
Yair Lapid
Get
Tell
Israel
" 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
" I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts. "
Yair Lapid
Used
Opinions
Learned
" I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past. "
Yair Lapid
Past
Tomorrow
Am
" The settlers do not have a problem with the leftists but, rather, with Israelis who like settlers: Israelis who are unconcerned by the fact that national-religious youngsters are overtaking our elite units. Such Israelis actually appreciate the settlers for that. "
Yair Lapid
Fact
Problem
Elite
" Facts cannot be replaced by opinion. "
Yair Lapid
Cannot
Replaced
Facts
" 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. "
Yair Lapid
You
Think
Say
" Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria. "
Yair Lapid
Media
Check
Hysteria
" 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.' "
Yair Lapid
Work
Work Hard
Day
" 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
" 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. "
Yair Lapid
Anger
Want
Conflict
" As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers. "
Yair Lapid
Questions
Politicians
Cannot
" Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation. "
Yair Lapid
Creation
Politics
Cynical