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.
Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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.
I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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.
Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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.
The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.
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.
As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.
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.
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.
You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.
I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
