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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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" 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. "

" Facts cannot be replaced by opinion. "

" 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. "

" There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions. "

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

" Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech. "

" 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? "

" I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis. "

" 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. "

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

" The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God. "

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

" 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. "

" The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem. "

" 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. "

" You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it. "

" Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.' "

" 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. "

" Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it. "

" People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics. "

" I do not deal with threats and ultimatums. "

" 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. "

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