Dan Shechtman

Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.

I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.