The State of Israel and its people are the loves of my life and I have been serving them from a very young age and for over two decades.
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We have been in the midst of the worst political crisis in the country's history for more than two years and we have been made to pay an unbeatable price. As long as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains in office, Israel will be unable to emerge from the political, social, and economic instability that plagues it. A change is essential.
The role of the prime minister of Israel is perhaps the most difficult and challenging role in the world. He shoulders the responsibility for the continued existence and prosperity of the people of Israel in their land.
What Israel needs today is a leader with experience, skills, judgment, and responsibility. It needs a leader with a profound understanding of the various policy issues and the ways in which the government and the Knesset work. No less important, Israel needs a leader who will unite it, connect the parts of our society and place the good of the public above all else.
I will bring all this with me to the role.
I served as the cabinet secretary twice, under two prime ministers – Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu - even before I served as a Knesset member and minister, making me intimately familiar with the prime minister's work.
As education minister and later the interior minister – two of the most important ministries - I led and implemented important reforms. I served in seven Knesset terms, in almost every possible role, pushing dozens of bills through to benefit the Israeli public. I have formed governments – and toppled them.
There is hardly a policy issue - political, security, economic or social – with which I am not deeply familiar, and I have plans to pursue various policy issues.
I can - more than any other candidate - unite all sections of the Israeli public, heal Israeli society, and mend its rifts. I believe that a unifying leadership is necessary today more than ever, given the challenges we face.
I will lead a national reconciliation campaign that is essential to building our true inner resilience.
I will do this not as a single ruler but as part of a government comprising an excellent group of people. I believe in Menachem Begin's leadership concept of "first among equals." Together, we give new hope to all Israelis, not just some of them.
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