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The Most Important Quality That the Prime Minister of Israel Should Have

I asked my father before I became prime minister, what do you think is the most important quality that the prime minister of Israel should have? And he thought for a minute and he said one word, that absolutely floored me. He said, education. You need a very broad and deep education. Otherwise, you'll be at the mercy of your clerks. So in terms of learning what you only was talking about, my father broadened it into the larger understanding that you have to be broadly and deeply educated in order to be able to decide what is truly important and what is not.

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