Israeli - Politician | December 26, 1962 -
Empires came and went while we, the Jewish people, persecuted relentlessly, facing expulsions and pogroms and the Holocaust, survived. We survived thanks to the Torah and faith in the Lord.
Eli Yishai
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Israelis are displaying buds of xenophobia.
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I don't want, under any circumstances, to see in 'Haaretz' a picture of a woman with a baby in her arms crying while policemen deport her.
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Gays and lesbians are sick people. It's definitely a disease. They haven't invented a cure for it yet, but I hope they will.
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The Land of Israel needs to build and be built, period.
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Admitting hundreds of thousands of infiltrators is an existential threat to the State of Israel.
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Let's set things straight... there are 300 million people living in countries within the Nile basin in horrific economic and security conditions. The $500 that they earn in Israel every month is an annual salary in their countries of origin.
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I'm not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.
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Democracies take time.
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This stereotype that haredim don't serve in the army and contribute is false and always was.
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The true and correct solution to eradicating discrimination is by establishing religious Sepharadi educational institutions. This is one of the reasons Shas was founded.
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A convert, if he converts through the Orthodox, he has the Jewish gene. If he doesn't convert through the Orthodox, he doesn't have the Jewish gene. As simple as that.
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