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Quotes by Israeli Authors

"I'm an open book."
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Benny Hinn
"I'm an open book."
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"Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom."
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Golda Meir
"Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom."
"I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state."
"There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel."
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Isaac Yeffet
"There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel."
"I recommend the art of slow reading."
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Amos Oz
"I recommend the art of slow reading."
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"What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face."
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Benny Hinn
"What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face."
"After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country."
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Isaac Yeffet
"After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country."
"We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization."
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Yitzhak Shamir
"We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization."
"A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace."
"Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals."
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Moshe Katsav
"Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals."
"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read."
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Shimon Peres
"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read."
"No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes."
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Avi Arad
"No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes."
"I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts."
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Benjamin Netanyahu
"I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts."
"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it."
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Moshe Katsav
"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it."
"By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime."
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Moshe Sharett
"By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime."
"Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them."
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Moshe Katsav
"Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them."
"The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons."
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Benjamin Netanyahu
"The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons."
"To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger."
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Moshe Dayan
"To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger."
Eye,
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"We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter."
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Isaac Yeffet
"We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter."
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
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Shimon Peres
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
"Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right."
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Amos Oz
"Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right."
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"The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away."
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Moshe Sharett
"The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away."
"We do not celebrate the death of our enemies."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"We do not celebrate the death of our enemies."
"I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building."
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Mordechai Vanunu
"I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building."
"Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources."
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Martin van Creveld
"Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources."
"Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults."
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Haim Ginott
"Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults."
"It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement."
"Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology."
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Avi Arad
"Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology."
"I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned."
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Shimon Peres
"I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned."
"God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh."
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Benny Hinn
"God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh."
"There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed."
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Benjamin Netanyahu
"There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed."
"For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family."
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Avi Arad
"For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family."
"I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes."
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Uri Geller
"I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes."
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"Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things."
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Itzhak Perlman
"Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things."
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"If I did not believe God healed, I'd quit tomorrow and go get a job."
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Benny Hinn
"If I did not believe God healed, I'd quit tomorrow and go get a job."
"One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening."
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Itzhak Perlman
"One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening."
"From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British."
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Mordechai Vanunu
"From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British."
"In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate."
"Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security."
"Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people."
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Mordechai Vanunu
"Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people."
"A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless."
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Moshe Sharett
"A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless."
"A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops."
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Amos Oz
"A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops."
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"Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected."
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"Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected."
"So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away."
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Benjamin Netanyahu
"So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away."
"The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated."
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Peter Malkin
"The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated."
"I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government."
"There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air."
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Isaac Yeffet
"There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air."
"The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace."
"We have an illusion of security, we don't have security."
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Isaac Yeffet
"We have an illusion of security, we don't have security."
"I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public."
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Mordechai Vanunu
"I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public."
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