Things can be translated, but they become different.

All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.

The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.

I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.

I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a daytime Israel and a nighttime Israel. The first is self-confident, pushy and passionate, like other Mediterranean lands. It is hedonistic, materialistic and almost arrogant. During the nighttime, people are terrified, people are filled with existential dreads. These fears aren't baseless.

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary.