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Yair Lapid

Yair Lapid is an Israeli politician, actor, journalist, author, former TV presenter and news anchor. He is founder and chairman of the "Yesh Atid" party, which turned second biggest party in the 2013 Israeli legislative election.

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Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool.

– Yair Lapid

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I don’t think Israel’s becoming more religious, I think its politics is becoming more religious. There’s a difference.

– Yair Lapid

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I hope to change things for the better, For 30 years this country has been about left versus right. Now we want to change things on the inside: national service, education, housing, a middle class that cannot finish the month.

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My thinking is that the conclusion of the collapse of these two ideologies, is that it is not for peace we should aspire, but for a solid agreement which would help us separate as efficiently as possible.

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We are all pretty determined people, And like Americans tend to look at the place we live in as not only a place but also an idea we live in.

– Yair Lapid

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We’ve never been closer to falling apart. Our national security is at risk, our economy is crumbling, our foreign relations are at their lowest point ever, we don’t know what to say to our children about their future in this country. We have been taken hostage by a bunch of extremists with no brakes and no boundaries.

– Yair Lapid

Found on CNN 1 year ago

Like thieves in the night, the coalition just passed a disgraceful and corrupt personalized law in response to a baseless rumour about recusal. Every citizen of Israel should know – days before Passover, while cost of living is soaring, Netanyahu is once more looking out only for himself.

– Yair Lapid

Found on CNN 1 year ago

The IDF soldiers will not be investigated by the The FBI, nor by any foreign entity or foreign country, however friendly The FBI may be.

– Yair Lapid

Found on FOX News 1 year ago

Our fight is not with the people of Gaza. Islamic Jihad is an Iranian proxy, that wants to destroy the State of Israel and kill innocent Israelis. The head of Islamic Jihad, is in Tehran as we speak. We will do whatever Islamic Jihad takes to defend our people.

– Yair Lapid

Found on CNN 2 years ago

The operational arena in the invisible dome above us is built on defensive capabilities and offensive capabilities, and what the foreign media tends to call' other capabilities.' These other capabilities keep us alive and will keep us alive so long as we and our children are here.

– Yair Lapid

Found on CNN 2 years ago

We won't sit and wait for Israeli citizens to be harmed, we will go out and harm the terrorists in their homes.

– Yair Lapid

Found on FOX News 2 years ago

Words will not stop them, The President. Diplomacy will not stop Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid. The only thing that will stop Iran is knowing that if Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid continue to develop Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid nuclear program, the free world will use force. The only way to stop Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid is to put a credible military threat on the table.

– Yair Lapid

Found on CNN 2 years ago

What unites all of( our supporters) is that they said yes for hope and yes for mutual responsibility and yes to the fact that the truth is not being held in any side.

– Yair Lapid

Found on CNN 2 years ago

The Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust.

– Yair Lapid

Found on CNN 2 years ago

We will continue to assist the Ukrainian people as much as we can and we will never turn our backs to the plight of people who know the horrors of war.

– Yair Lapid

Found on FOX News 2 years ago

The fact that there are radicals for whom the Israeli flag represents hatred and racism is abominable and unforgivable.

– Yair Lapid

Found on FOX News 3 years ago

We need a government that will reflect the fact that we don’t hate one another. A government in which left, right and centre will work together to tackle the economic and security challenges we face.

– Yair Lapid

Found on Reuters 3 years ago

He's destroying the country, we won't let him.

– Yair Lapid

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

If you are looking for deterrence, look to the people who brought the deterrence to Israel and led the army in times like this.

– Yair Lapid

Found on FOX News 5 years ago

A terrorist organization cant determine our daily routines, hamas cant run the show. Hamas cant decide when the fighting starts and ends.

– Yair Lapid

Found on FOX News 5 years ago

I know this, because Yair Lapid said this :' The Arabic tongue and the Hebrew tongue will be equal in their rights and legal validity.' This statement is not a political statement, it's a practical statement.

– Yair Lapid

Found on CNN 6 years ago

Since the government of Israel, as usual, did nothing, I talked to Johnson, a great friend of Israel, and explained to him that the State of Israel will not tolerate such things.

– Yair Lapid

Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Today, a country that threatens the existence of Israel, denies the Holocaust, destabilizes the Middle East, subjugates its own people and supports terror across the globe is being strengthened by the international community, the lifting of sanctions strengthens Hezbollah, it strengthens (Syrian President Bashar al-) Assad, it strengthens terrorists across the region who benefit from Iranian support.

– Yair Lapid

Found on CNN 8 years ago

Around 15 percent of voters make up their minds on the day and we're pretty good at tapping into those people.

– Yair Lapid

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

The majority of Israelis want change, the Netanyahu era is coming to an end. That's not because security issues don't matter but because social and economic issues are dominating the agenda.

– Yair Lapid

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

The Netanyahu era is coming to an end. That's not because security issues don't matter but because social and economic issues are dominating the agenda, netanyahu has missed his moment. You can't blame him - it's never easy to know when the moment of your era passes. But for him it has passed.

– Yair Lapid

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

There is a wind of change, and if there is a wind of change on domestic issues, there is going to be a wind of change on Palestinian issues as well, it's not something done in one leap, it's a triple jump, but it's coming.

– Yair Lapid

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

If you ask me 'What is the one great move you can make to improve the Israeli economy?' of course it will be signing an agreement with the Arab world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This will change everything.

– Yair Lapid