Yair Lapid

in the face of challenges

The first step is obvious to restoring Israel’s reputation, Send into retirement Benjamin Netanyahu and his group of extremists who are tearing us apart at home and abroad.

If a minister in your government says a nuclear bomb should be dropped on Gaza, fire him.

If a minister stands over a large group of handcuffed activists lying on the floor of a detention facility, waving a flag and mocking them, fire him.

Elizabeth Warren, John Ossoff and Tim Kaine are not the enemy. The Democratic Party is not the enemy.

I passed the 20-point plan, I did it just to bend Netanyahu’s arm into it.

I call on the government to immediately instruct all relevant authorities to concentrate and deploy every resource necessary to re-examine every possible investigative direction, and to update both the family and the public on the steps…

I can't explain just how much this is a total failure of Netanyahu's. That's his job. His job is to prevent a Saudi nuclear program.

I welcome the High Court’s decision to freeze the appointment of the state comptroller.

these elections were contaminated, and Netanyahu’s private attorney cannot be appointed to the role.

[Netanyahu is] giving our money to the haredim and helping the draft dodgers instead of exacting justice from them.

Israel needs a new agreement, a fair agreement between the government and its citizens - an agreement that says we are all building this country together.

one of the most shocking failures in Israel’s foreign and security policy … entirely registered in Netanyahu’s name

It can be fixed, it must be fixed. Netanyahu can no longer fix it, we will do it.

Arye Deri sits in the cabinet and sends our children to fight and die for the country - and then he walks outside and sends his own children to block roads against drafting into the IDF.

This moral stain will never be washed away from this government. We will return, draft everyone, and bring order to the streets of Israel.

When war is forced upon us, we must strike with overwhelming and disproportionate force. But war alone cannot become our automatic response to every problem.

I want to call out from here to Gadi Eisenkot. I want to say two words to him: Gadi, come. You are a man of values, a man who loves this country.

Gadi, come. You are a man of values, a man who loves this country.

I am putting all my experience and knowledge behind one conviction: in order to win, we must first unite the camp.

After three-and-a-half years of pain, grief, and disasters, there will be a great wave of hope, optimism, and normalcy. Gadi is coming, the camp is uniting, just as the country needs to unite.

Mother and father, father and father, mother and mother, all will have the same rights, all will be equal before the law.

We are masters of our own destiny. If this government has a problem with LGBT people, then this government should go home, because the community is not going anywhere. Happy Pride Month. I am proud to be here with you.

We stand here with the entire gay community today to say: The situation is not a given, reality is not a decree of fate.