Aliyah is the central goal of the State of Israel.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

A rabbi told me that when you have two problems - one near, one not so near - concentrate on the immediate one.

Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.

On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Britain and the United States, in order to discuss saving the Jews of Europe. In fact, the participants did everything in their power to avoid dealing with the problem.

When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.