Top 60 Naftali Bennett Quotes

I’m vehemently against population transfer. I’m against expelling anyone from his house, ever – whether it be a Jew or an Arab.

I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.

I know that ‘boots on the ground’ is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.

I think people appreciate honesty.

The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.

You can’t be a conqueror in your own home.

The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science – in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

I myself am a former commando fighter.

Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.

I come from the hi-tech world – you don’t survive if you don’t constantly reinvent yourself every few years.

It’s totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.

Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can’t build? That’s nuts.

Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.

I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

What I’m working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.

The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlement blocs, and others who say we may not be able to hold onto the towns outside the blocs. I have come to tell you what the Arabs already know – that the Land of Israel is one bloc.

The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.

I’m not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that’s fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that’s fine.

Not everything can be solved quickly.

I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.

I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

I have one identity, and that’s Israeli and Jewish. I don’t view myself as an American citizen.

Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there’s a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.

You don’t talk to terror organizations!

There’s 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don’t want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.

If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don’t send your women and children.

Europe, the U.S., and their allies can defeat the terrorists of Islamic State, or ISIS. The first step is making the decision to fight back. The next step is understanding that drones and standoff missiles will not be enough. Ground troops will be needed.

Judaism doesn’t recognize gay marriage, just as we don’t recognize milk and meat together as kosher, and nothing will change it… I’m not a hypocrite; I state my positions.

Israel is the vanguard of the free world against the Islamic terrorism of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran.

The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.

There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.

Things are expensive, very expensive in Israel for many reasons. One of the reasons is our ports. It’s a monopoly. They run very poorly. And we have ships that are stuck in the ocean for three or four days or a week, and all that cost is transferred to the products and the consumer.

The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that’s wrong.

It’s no secret that I wear a kippa.

Israel will not divide its land. We’re already too small.

Netanyahu supports – and he truly does support – building a Palestinian state within Israel.

I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that’s part of what a good democracy is.

Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.

Netanyahu’s raison d’etre is to save Israel from Iran. That is it. That is his mission in the most profound sense. I have seen it up close.

In the Middle East, we don’t have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.

Iran doesn’t need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don’t enrich uranium. You don’t need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.

The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it’s being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.

There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.

We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don’t have another Jewish state.

I state in no uncertain terms: An order to uproot an Arab village or a Jewish settlement violates the most basic of human rights… It’s a difficult dilemma.

Historically, the National Religious Party, which my party – Jewish Home – is built upon, has aligned itself in consecutive Israeli governments with the ultra-Orthodox factions.

Israel never targets civilians deliberately, period.

You can’t build a society without law.

Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.

There’s been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.

I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he’s a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.

We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.

When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.

It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.

I don’t see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.

Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.

The term ‘demilitarized Palestinian state’ is an oxymoron.

I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.

I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public.