Prime Minister Yair Lapid's Speech to the United Nations General Assembly: "Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, In November 1947 this General Assembly gathered and decided upon the creation of a Jewish State. Only a few hundred thousand Jews lived in Israel at the time, in hostile surroundings, shocked and devastated after the Holocaust in which six million of our people were murdered. Seventy-five years later, Israel is a strong liberal democracy. Proud and pr