Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
— Yair Lapid
Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will not be divided.
I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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.
When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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.
Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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.
The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.
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.
If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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?
The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.
There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
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.
I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
I am a Zionist.
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.
Social revolutions are never simple.
The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem.
I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to politics. He's a good man, a man who cares. It's good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that.
One of the hardest things is to create hope.
I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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.
The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.
The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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.
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.
I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.
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.
I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost.
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.
When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.
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.'
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.
I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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.
Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.
Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.'
