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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. "

Yair Lapid

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" Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Facts cannot be replaced by opinion. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions. "