Isaac Herzog

Look what's going on: the Iranians are spreading military capabilities throughout the region; look what's going on in Yemen, Hizbollah, their cooperation with Assad, terror activities the world over, undermining regimes and states.

Rabbis throughout the ages, from Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook onward, strictly prohibited going up on the Temple Mount. And now there is a minority group of rabbis encouraging Jews to go.

The Gaza leadership is stuck in its rhetoric of revolution and resistance. But the people are fed up with their leadership.

The world is yearning for strong leadership and moral clarity; someone who knows the difference between good and bad.

Netanyahu is beholden to the extreme Right.

Security is an underlining interest of Israel.

With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built the state, and its leaders formulated the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that anchors Israel as a Jewish state.

We have to be responsible in what we say as leaders.

I promise: I will be a prime minister to everyone. For right and left, for settlers, Haredim, Druze, Arabs, Circassians. I will be prime minister for the center and for the periphery, for students and senior citizens.

I think Israel suffered a certain trauma from a unilateral step of pulling out of Gaza.

My dad always had huge respect for the British Army. He always thought it was one of the best. And I think it changed his life - those seven years in that Army.

The needs of the business sector must be understood.