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" You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it. "
Yair Lapid
You
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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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" The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost. "
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" The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life. "
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" I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts. "
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" Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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Everyone
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You
" I do not deal with threats and ultimatums. "
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Deal
Threats
Ultimatums
" The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions. "
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Day
Choices
Decisions
" One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State. "
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World
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Fears
" Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will not be divided. "
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Will
Divided
" 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. "
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Product
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" 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. "
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Real
Justice
Security
" 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. "
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Existence
Heritage
Important
" 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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Need
Truth
Us
" I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis. "
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You
Because
Caution
" The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council. "
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Human
Human Rights
Rights
" The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "
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Conflict
Part
North
" 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. "
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World
Truth
People
" 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. "
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Shape
Division
Way
" Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen. "
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Children
Will
Want
" 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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Media
Check
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" 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.' "
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Work Hard
Day
" 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. "
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Equality
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" If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them. "
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Proud
Woods
Beer
" Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions. "
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Decisions
Were
Never
" The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does. "
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Left
Understand
Public
" The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride. "
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Through
Rather
Israel
" Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road. "
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Creator
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