Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.

Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.

[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years.

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.

In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.