I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more.

When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours."

The Arab-Israeli conflict is the biggest problem, but small problems shape the daily lives of Israelis. Unless there happens to be a war going on, the Arab-Israeli conflict is irrelevant in daily life.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool.

Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million. We have one of the world's top high-tech industries and a high standard of living. There is only one thing we haven't achieved: Making the country safer for Jews.

Israel is a long way from facing a threat to its very existence. We are too strong, both economically and militarily, for that. If anything threatens Israel, it is this form of paranoid thought that makes us think: "Oh God, they're going to kill us in two seconds! What should we do?"

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.