Quotes from Reuven Rivlin

Even if the Right says that Um Al-Fahm should be outside Israel, this is impossible.

There's no doubt that our hearts are with the residents of Gaza. We and the whole world are unable to get to a situation in which Gaza can be rehabilitated. There needs to be an international initiative with Israel's participation, in order to bring an end to the enmity against us.

There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don't respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.

There are many Palestinians who believe there is no way to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. They call for the right of the return of refugees to Israel - something which is unacceptable for the consensus in Israel and which strikes at the very heart of this issue.

The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of the collective creativity and history of the Jewish people.

We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.

Arik is suffused with a mystical belief about Jerusalem.

No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

Israel is proud to be Jordan's partner and to stand at Jordan's side in promoting stability and quiet to our entire region.

Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.

Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are interlaced one with the other.

Netanyahu must mend fences with Obama.

There's no doubt we'd be very angry if the American president had come to the Knesset and argued against the government of Israel.

The ayatollahs are trying to unite the whole Arab world against Israel by saying that Israel is something that should be brought to an end.

We need a broad government which will make decisions, but not a national unity government, because we are divided from within.

We are one family, and the connection between all Jews, all over the world, is very important to the State of Israel.

We must stay focused on the bilateral negotiations between the Palestinians and us.

I wish to strengthen the hand of the Prime Minister and the heads of the security agencies in the unrelenting battle for our right to maintain normal daily life in every place in Israel.

The Jewish journey started in the land of Israel, and it always strove to return there against all odds and all limitations.

I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.

I'm not opposed to talking with anyone who is willing to talk.

Everyone needs to understand that we were meant to live together in this country. We have to get to know one another; even if we don't agree, we have to enable each side to express itself.

We are here to ask for your forgiveness,