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" The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride. "
Yair Lapid
Through
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" The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual. "
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" There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions. "
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" I do not deal with threats and ultimatums. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me. "
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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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" I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past. "
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" Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions. "
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" 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. "
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" I studied math, and I was terrible at it. "
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" Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.' "
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Before
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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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" Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy. "
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" Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion. "
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World
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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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Before
You
" One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members. "
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Together
Society
" 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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" 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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" Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen. "
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Will
Want
" 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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" Social revolutions are never simple. "
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" 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. "
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" Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism? "
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" There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them. "
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" 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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" I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts. "
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" 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. "
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