Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.

My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.