Words matter. These are the best Eli Yishai Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There is not another country that is as sensitive as Israel is to the rights of foreigners.
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.
Construction in Jerusalem cannot be halted.
Syria is still the foundation of the axis of evil, and I’m not sure it’s appropriate to transfer Israel’s northern front to the axis of evil.
It is inconceivable that ministers of the Israeli government choose a car whose features are unnecessary luxuries in addition to being produced in Germany.
I’m not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.
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.
Destroy and damage infrastructure, public buildings and government buildings. Do not leave them any place from which they can operate to damage Israel. We must be sure that Hamas will be spending many years in rebuilding Gaza and not in attacking Israel.
The true and correct solution to eradicating discrimination is by establishing religious Sepharadi educational institutions. This is one of the reasons Shas was founded.
The Land of Israel needs to build and be built, period.
Democracies take time.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
We are losing the Jewish people in the Diaspora.
Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.
This stereotype that haredim don’t serve in the army and contribute is false and always was.
I support peace.
If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah.
I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I’m motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don’t have another country.
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.
South Tel Aviv has turned into the garbage can of the country.
Ahmed Tibi does not recognize the existence of the state of Israel, and letting him into the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is a serious danger to its security.
Put an end to talk on dividing Jerusalem. There can be no negotiations about Jerusalem.
Admitting hundreds of thousands of infiltrators is an existential threat to the State of Israel.
If you want to be Jewish, welcome, but convert via the Halacha.
There has always been this feeling among the religious public of, ‘Why can’t we all unite?’ Shas, UTJ, Jewish Home… But, of course, the differences between the political parties in practice are too big to bridge.
I walk around haredi neighborhoods freely, and I actually receive a lot of positive responses from people.
Israelis are displaying buds of xenophobia.
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.
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.
We have to protect and do our utmost to fortify the walls of Judaism in the land of Israel through legislation that will guard the unique Jewish character of the state of Israel.
