Israeli society is in a crisis, and "when the entire distillation of the vision of the State of Israel is summed up in the sentence once uttered by Ehud Olmert, 'a state that is fun to live in,' it is no wonder that Israeli society is in a state of decline," Former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon said at a Memorial Day event in Petach Tikva.
"If 50 percent of the youth never visited Jerusalem before they were conscripted to the army, we have a problem," Yaalon said. "When we… demand of the soldier to defend the Zionist creation, the only national home, to the point of risking his life and sacrificing it, it is not enough to define Israel as 'a state that is fun to live in.' That is why we are in a crisis," he explained.
"The most important thing that we need today," he said, "is leadership with a vision… that will include the calling of realizing Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, and education that urges that this vision come true quickly."