67 Tel Aviv Quotes to Help You Discover its Vibrant Charm

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Famous Tel Aviv Quotes

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity. — Yehuda Amichai

Israel, the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East, continues to shine as a beacon of light in the darkest region of the world. — Brigitte Gabriel

First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever. — Benjamin Netanyahu

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values. — David Ben-Gurion

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship. — George Pataki

The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have to keep it clean and good. — Ilan Ramon

Israel is a wonderful country. It's a beautiful country. It is ours. But it is a country with 10,000 problems that we have to solve and deal. — Ariel Sharon

Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state. — Norman Finkelstein

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. — David Ben-Gurion

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations. — Lincoln Chafee

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures. — David K. Shipler

I'm a man of history. My vision is guiding me, my clear vision. It is not by chance that the currents of peace are increasing daily inside Israel. — Yasser Arafat

Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust. — Hugo Chavez

The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever. — Menachem Begin

Israel must be wiped off the map. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Short Tel Aviv Quotes

  • Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother. — Moshe Dayan
  • Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam — Kristin Cashore
  • Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor. — Moshe Dayan
  • Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza — Sayings
  • America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. — Ilka Chase
  • One day every major city in America will have a telephone. — Alexander Graham Bell
  • Prague is the Paris of the '90s. — Marion Ross
  • The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away. — David Ben-Gurion

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Israel Quotes

That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel. — David Duke

I think [Steve Scalise] is a good man I am not going to vote in that regard because I believe Israel controls the Senate they control the House of Representatives they control the media . — David Duke

Israel is a colonialist-imperialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state such as Israel. Israel is the result of an invasion, of aggression. — Muammar al-Gaddafi

I believe the reason why he media so hates me and the reason why they make a big deal of it. This is because I'm one of the few Americans, political Americans who think that we shouldn't be led by the nose by Israel. — David Duke

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. — Golda Meir

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims. — Hanan Ashrawi

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us... — Golda Meir

The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel. — Yasser Arafat

Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.' — Theodor Herzl

It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region. — Ali Khamenei

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More Tel Aviv Quotes

My allies are the United States and Israel and, what’s more, I’ll move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. When the ONE ordered Moses to break the first tablets of the law, the first word he pronounced was Jerusalem and it was there King David established the capital so the embassy must be transferred from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. — Javier Milei

A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that. — Madonna Ciccone

We see nation-states collapsing all around us: Libya, Syria, Iraq. We do not want another failed state in our neighborhood, which would rapidly turn into a stronghold for terrorists, as we have seen in Gaza. We do not want tunnels to suburbs of Tel Aviv or missiles pointed at Jerusalem. — Ayelet Shaked

I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red Sea Racin' Saddam Hussein on Kawasaki jet ski's — Ras Kass

You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv. — Yasser Arafat

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland. — P. J. O'Rourke

The protesters, in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, revealed an open and raw wound at the heart of Israeli society, the pain of a community crying out over a sense of discrimination, racism, and of being unanswered. — Reuven Rivlin

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed. — Daniela Pestova

In Tel Aviv the weekends last 48 hours. In Jerusalem they last 6 months. — Ze'ev Chafets

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people. — Maya Angelou

A little more than a hundred years ago, "Tel Aviv" was not a city. It was a title of a novel written by an author. The "Return to Zion" was a name of another novel. There was a bookshelf. There was no country. There was no state. There was no nation. There was no physical Jewish reality in this country. — Amos Oz

There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence? — Max Blumenthal

In the Middle East you get that sense that leadership decisions and the local powers that are working around us all the time have a direct effect on the quality of life... and that quality of life is obviously very different between a kid who is growing up in a refugee camp and somebody who is living in Tel Aviv. — Eran Riklis

I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin. — Kehinde Wiley

Tel Aviv, with its young Olim community, is the sexiest thing on the entire planet. — Ruth Westheimer

Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally. — Barack Obama

Tel Aviv is the most party time place in the world. — Claire Danes

I have no idea other than where my readers are located, roughly. They could be 12. They could be 50. I just haven't a clue. I'm hoping my readership is a little wider and broad than what the typical fashion blog gets. I have received emails from a 50-year-old lady in Tel Aviv who says I have revived her passion for fashion. — Susanna Lau

Trump's election is generally bad news.... In international policy, one can imagine that if Trump were foolish enough to go ahead with his pledge to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it would be widely experienced throughout the Islamic world as a provocation. — Richard A. Falk

The beach in Tel-Aviv I went to, it even looks and feels a little bit like Rio de Janeiro. Some other places are very European and I just like it. I thought it would be fun but it's a lot better than that. It's a lot more relaxed and a lot of fun, and I feel very secure, and I would tell my friends they should come here when they plan a vacation. Not only the history. — Georges St-Pierre

Doing a movie in Tel Aviv or London or South Africa or Mexico. It's this great second act to my career, and it's a real good time. — Robert Englund

The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv. — David Mamet

It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic. — Martin Samuel

The danger of Iran is if you listen to what the Ayatollah is saying, to what the Mullahs are saying, rational self-preservation is not their objective. If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon the odds are unacceptably high that that weapon will not be simply stockpiled, but it will be detonated over Tel Aviv, or New York, or Los Angeles. — Ted Cruz

Every time I come home, and every time before I leave, I invite all my friends and I get hummus from this little shack in Tel Aviv called Baadunas. — Bar Refaeli

Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives. — George Mikes

Tel Aviv appeals to me. — Taylor Caldwell

I love this city [Tel Aviv]! — Missy Elliot

We're excited to be appearing in Tel Aviv in the framework of the Pic.nic festival. This is an important tour for us and we're glad that Israel is part of it — Julio Iglesias

Tel Aviv is a dynamic international city with a lot of smart people, great fashion and food. I've met a lot of amazing people and there's this great energy everywhere. — Greg Dulli

Tel Aviv, Israel, me, Robbie Williams. I'm coming to see you. It's like a first date. I've got butterflies in my stomache, I can't wait. I hope you feel the same way too. There will be singing, there will be dancing, there will be banter, there will be love. Mainly from me, beaming it to you, from my heart into your heads and minds. — Robbie Williams

This will be my first visit [to Israel]. I've heard it's a special place, that Tel Aviv is exciting and that the atmosphere is excellent....I hope I'll have time to visit the holy places. — James Blunt

I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus. — Victor Davis Hanson

Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. — Steven Spielberg

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