If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

Universally, not only in Israel, people want to feel good about themselves. We all want to feel good to some extent.