7 Quotes by Tommy Lapid

until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon.

I want a secular government, I want separation of state and religion, I think logic will prevail and we will have a secular government for the first time in Israel's history.

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

They don't work, 80% of the men don't work, they don't pay taxes, ... Others have to subsidize their existence. I don't think this is possible in a liberal western country.

It's true that history seems denser than it really is.

It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you are a Jew from morning to night. We don't even have to think about it, just as a Dutch citizen doesn't spend his whole day thinking about the fact that he is a Dutch citizen. It's a given.

The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.