Yair Lapid Quotes

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Yair Lapid

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 5, 1963

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.

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As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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

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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.

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

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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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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

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In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.

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

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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.

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

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An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.

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