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" 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
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" Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road. "
Yair Lapid
Road
Creator
Hebrew
" 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. "
Yair Lapid
Equality
Law
God
" 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? "
Yair Lapid
Left
Women
Oppression
" Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem. "
Yair Lapid
Security
Street
Personal
" The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers. "
Yair Lapid
Existence
Heritage
Important
" Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks. "
Yair Lapid
Face
Work
Risks
" 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. "
Yair Lapid
Always
Opening
Will
" 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
" The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders. "
Yair Lapid
Shape
Division
Way
" Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.' "
Yair Lapid
Needs
Before
Stand
" The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course. "
Yair Lapid
Control
Government
Think
" Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion. "
Yair Lapid
Different
World
Opinion
" 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? "
Yair Lapid
Opportunities
Remember
Terrorism
" Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud. "
Yair Lapid
Teach
Talmud
Any
" Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together. "
Yair Lapid
Together
Ideas
Judaism
" 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
" 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
Fighting
War
Drag
" 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. "
Yair Lapid
Country
Place
Politics
" 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
" 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
" I studied math, and I was terrible at it. "
Yair Lapid
Math
Studied
Terrible
" The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does. "
Yair Lapid
Left
Understand
Public
" 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. "
Yair Lapid
Years
Judaism
New
" 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
" 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
" Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world. "
Yair Lapid
Degree
Hold
Teachers
" I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me. "
Yair Lapid
Sabbath
Me
You
" 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
" Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot. "
Yair Lapid
Lee
Johnson
Idiot
" 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