Lior Schlein on his partner Merav Michaeli: "She destroyed the Hebrew language""

January 7, 2023   

Comedian and TV host Lior Schlein was a guest at the "Ophira and Berkowitz" studio on Keshet 12, and spoke, among other things, about his relationship with former Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli and his decision not to live together. "We are two different people, and we know it. We don't want to fight over which side the toilet paper is on, each of us is an independent person," he explained.

When asked about her choice to speak in male and female, he replied firmly: "She ruined the Hebrew language. But why is that? Because we are boys, we don't encounter this problem. If they addressed us in a gender other than ours, it would disgust us as well.".

On his attitude towards the Haredim: "My quarrel is not with the million and a quarter Haredim who were born into the religion. My quarrel is with their leaders who keep them in a ghetto of poverty and ignorance for one reason - to preserve their own power. It is difficult to leave religion and move into the liberal world, and I admire anyone who has done it.".

""My second quarrel is with secular politicians who remain silent because it helps their coalition and they want to succeed in politics personally.". Many will say that she is responsible for the election result. What is your opinion on the matter? ""The election results were that if Meretz had passed with four seats, the gap would have narrowed. If they had run as one party, they would have come in with fewer seats, and that would only have given Avi Maoz, Smotrich and Ben Gvir even greater blackmailing power. We are truly two independent people who love each other very much, and Merv is one of the few leaders in the country, but I also thought that was a mistake. I thought in real life that this was a very tough election campaign with people who don't see eye to eye and are irresponsible, both religious Zionism and Yair Lapid, but we are each individuals on our own.". Did you at least choose her? ""I have voted for Likud and Labor all my life. Ever since Labor Chairman Merav and Bibi have been facing three indictments, the hesitation has become easy.". What do you think about the current situation? ""Why are they fighting in court? Because the court has two rules, law and equality. It doesn't suit them. Deri wants to do whatever he wants - the leaders want the Haredim not to serve in the army and because it's not equal and the court can't accept that, so they're fighting him. They want all of our money, including the Haredim, and for everything to go to religious Zionism and yeshivas, there's no equality in that. So that's why they're going to court, not because he's a leftist who prevents war on the Palestinians." "Let's also talk about Benny Gantz, what was that speech this week? It was complete cowardice and servility. Yair Lapid, who flew to France too - unless they're bringing a child through surrogacy now, this is not the time to fly to Paris. The 'Benny Gantz' thinking is that the values ​​are on the other side and that you have to flatter a very specific Judaism in order to even be able to talk to them.".