In a Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) interview on Monday morning 14 Teves, Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid admitted that he made many mistakes during his tenure as finance minister in the outgoing Knesset.
“I entered the office of finance minister a bit intoxicated with power and I wasn’t modest enough or thoughtful enough of others. I do not know anyone who is immune to making mistakes. I look at persons who are experiences and see their great accomplishments and they admit to their mistakes, which they learned from”.
“In the democratic system new people come as one does not wish to see the same people all the time. When you arrive in a new place you begin in a small place and you learn. I got hit over the head more than once” Lapid explained.
He added “I was on the way to cutting housing prices and this could be the reason I am no longer there”.
When asked if he will boycott entering a coalition headed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Lapid stated “I have stated hundreds of times we are opposed to the culture of disqualifying anyone. Despite this, we will do our utmost that Netanyahu will not become prime minister”.
Lapid accuses the prime minister of heading a government with a “culture of corruption that goes nowhere”, and he feels the government leaves it citizens in the dark regarding future plans.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Yeah, his biggest mistake was to so hate Hashem as to be unwilling to sit in a government with people who follow His Torah to the nth degree.
“we are opposed to the culture of disqualifying anyone.”
Except of course charaidim.
they are all a bunch of Reshaim. which democratic society passes laws in direct opposition to a sizable minority no matter if they voted for them or not?
מודה על האמת
“and they admit to their mistakes, which they learned from”
Popular saying:
“A fool learns from his mistakes, a wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
In which category shall we put Lapid?
#1. I’m not taking up for Lapid. I hope he disappears from the political scene. He’s a disaster. That being said, Halevai that the Chareidi parties follow the Torah to the nth degree. Unfortunately, this isn’t so.