Top 35 Ayelet Shaked Quotes

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I was a Likud member for many years. The problem in the

I was a Likud member for many years. The problem in the Likud is that every leader takes the Likud to the left. It wasn’t easy for me to take this step.
Ayelet Shaked
The governments that were in power before Naftali Bennett and I went into politics, before the Jewish Home party gained strength, were right-wing governments that carried on with the policies of the left.
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The justice system is a foundation of our existence as a democratic society. I will not be the one to soften its bite. But I will also not allow it to eat away at the legal authority of the legislative and executive branches. We must find the formula for the right balance between the branches.
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Segregation is not exclusion.
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I won’t let the grudge Netanyahu and those who surround him have against me hurt the country.
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Zionism needn’t continue, and won’t continue, to bow its head to a system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way.
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There are differences between the Right and the Likud.
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I was always interested in politics.
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No one was talking about a two-state solution until the ’90s, then it became an acceptable solution.
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Cabinet resolutions approving mass releases of terrorists deal a mortal blow to the status of Israel’s judges and courts.
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I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.
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The court’s authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.
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Israel’s Supreme Court is one of the best in the world, and I think that it should stay that way; I don’t want to weaken it, I just want to change its approach.
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I think that ‘Judaizing the Galilee’ is not an offensive term. We used to talk like that.
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We spoke at endless cabinet meetings about the need to stop the flow of money to the families of terrorists and to the terrorists in jails.
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From a constitutional point of view there is an advantage to democracy and it must be balanced and the Supreme Court should be given another constitutional tool that will also give power to Judaism.
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The Knesset has balances that will not allow it to pass legislation that would destroy democracy from within.
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In the past, there were groups which felt that the High Court didn’t represent them.
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I’d like to see the haredim become part of the Israeli society.
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Of course in a democracy the government and the citizens have to abide by court rulings, even if we don’t like them or don’t agree with them.
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I just want to faithfully represent the public that voted for me and diligently work for all the people in Israel. If I can do that, I don’t care what anyone says about me.
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We must openly call for the establishment of a Kurdish state that separates Iran from Turkey, one which will be friendly towards Israel.
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I have been to Holot. I think it’s a very good place, very dignified with very good conditions.
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It’s not good for Israel to have a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel.
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Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We’re in a democratic country.
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I think, as a secular woman who heads a religious party and lives in Tel Aviv, we don’t have so many problems on religion and state. Politicians, like Yair Lapid and Avigdor Liberman, are trying to create these problems for all different reasons and interests in order to get more votes.
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Until I was justice minister, Netanyahu was proud of stopping laws to change the judiciary.
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In the absolute majority of western democracies – elected officials are the ones who appoint the highest bench in the judicial system. There is no reason for us to lag behind.
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Everyone must have their rights, and in fact everyone gets their rights.
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I remember when I was very young, perhaps 8-years old, I saw a debate between Shimon Peres and Yitzchak Shamir and I really liked Shamir. So I think since then, even though I was just a child, I’ve considered myself right-wing.
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We witness anti-Semitic attacks in the heart of Europe. We hear anti-Semitic slanders in European media. We feel anti-Semitic hatred in the continent that should have learned the lesson.
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There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel

There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the Jewish people.
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Netanyahu wants to make me and my party out as small, lame and uninfluential.
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Heading the ideological Right is more important than being in the Likud.
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A woman can do anything… even lead the country.
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