Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

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

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

I am a Zionist.

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're Jewish. This is both a furious and vulnerable message.

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

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
Yair Lapid

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
Yair Lapid

Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

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

Yair Lapid
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
Yair Lapid

Intellectuals know how to answer the question, 'What God do I believe in?' not only through the question of 'What God do I abhor?' Intellectuals can also answer the question of 'What flag do I wave?' without having to answer the question of 'What flag do I burn.'

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

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

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

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
Yair Lapid

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
Yair Lapid

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.

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

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.

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

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.

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

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.

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

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.

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

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.

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.