Lapid: Few words

Hecklers prevented Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid from delivering his prepared remarks to the Kenesset on Sunday. He instead delivered this abbreviated statement.

I’m skipping the speech I had planned to deliver today because I’m here to say one thing  —  to ask for forgiveness from my mother.

My mother is 86 years old and we don’t ask her to come to Jerusalem lightly. But we did it because I assumed that you would be able to control yourselves and behave with statesmanship at this moment, and she would see a smooth transition of government.

When she was born, there was no State of Israel, Tel Aviv was a small town of 30,000 people, and we didn’t have a parliament. I wanted her to be proud of the democratic process in Israel.

Instead, she, along with every citizen of Israel, is ashamed of you and remembers clearly why it is high time that we replace you.

Thank you.