Yair Lapid Quotes

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Yair Lapid

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 5, 1963

I urge the senior members of the political system to form as broad a government as possible that would unite the moderate forces from the Left and Right so that we will be able to bring about real change in the State of Israel.

Yair Lapid

Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

Yair Lapid

Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

Yair Lapid

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

Yair Lapid

When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.

Yair Lapid

The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.

Yair Lapid

Yesh Atid is a Jewish, religious-secular party. Our DNA is center - both Left and Right. The difference between center-left and center-right is more emotional and hereditary than having to do with what people think about the Palestinians.

Yair Lapid

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.

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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

Yair Lapid

If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.

Yair Lapid

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

Yair Lapid

The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.

Yair Lapid

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

Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

Yair Lapid