Lapid Quotes

#1. Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as a commentary on the world as much as on Israel.

Manohla Dargis

#2. Being a Jew and an Israeli are inseparable things.

Yair Lapid

#3. God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

Rachel Caine

#4. Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million. We have one of the world's top high-tech industries and a high standard of living. There is only one thing we haven't achieved: Making the country safer for Jews.

Yair Lapid

#5. Israel is a long way from facing a threat to its very existence. We are too strong, both economically and militarily, for that. If anything threatens Israel, it is this form of paranoid thought that makes us think: "Oh God, they're going to kill us in two seconds! What should we do?"

Yair Lapid

#6. There is a difference between a small community being herded into a park and murdered and all of these communities joining forces to make sure that something like that will not happen again.

Yair Lapid

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

Yair Lapid

#8. When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours."

Yair Lapid

#9. 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

#10. It's true that history seems denser than it really is.

Tommy Lapid

#11. We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.

Henry Cuellar

#12. You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!

Adriano Directo Emperado

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Yair Lapid

#16. The Arab-Israeli conflict is the biggest problem, but small problems shape the daily lives of Israelis. Unless there happens to be a war going on, the Arab-Israeli conflict is irrelevant in daily life.

Yair Lapid

#17. Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

Plutarch

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

Yair Lapid

#19. ...and then she realized: they WERE all alike!

Anne Taintor

#20. He shrugged those broad shoulders, drawing her gaze to them. She couldn't help but undress him with her eyes, remembering every hot inch of his naked body. Unfortunately he knew what she was doing.
"All you have to do is ask and I'll take my clothes off.

Katie Reus

#21. The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.

Yair Lapid

#22. Orthodox Jews often ask you: "Are you an Israeli first, or a Jew?" I see no difference between the two. After all, I'm also simultaneously the son of my parents, the husband of my wife and the father of my children.

Yair Lapid

#23. The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.

Tommy Lapid