I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.

For us to become a nation, everyone - including Arabs, Druze, ultra-Orthodox and new immigrants - must feel that they belong. Their success is extremely important to us. If they succeed, they will come to understand the advantages of democracy and freedom.

The problem with our region is that there are areas with oil and too much money, and then there are places such as south Lebanon and the Palestinian territories where there is no work, and instead of developing industry, they become dependent on oil money - this results in extremism.

The only thing I knew how to do without a lot of money was repairing tools. I actually started making and repairing tools for machines.