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Eli Yishai Quotes

The Land of Israel needs to build and be built, period.

– Eli Yishai

A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

– Eli Yishai

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.

– Eli Yishai

Israelis are displaying buds of xenophobia.

– Eli Yishai

I’m not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.

– Eli Yishai

Put an end to talk on dividing Jerusalem. There can be no negotiations about Jerusalem.

– Eli Yishai

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.

– Eli Yishai

We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.

– Eli Yishai

Construction in Jerusalem cannot be halted.

– Eli Yishai

This stereotype that haredim don’t serve in the army and contribute is false and always was.

– Eli Yishai

It is inconceivable that ministers of the Israeli government choose a car whose features are unnecessary luxuries in addition to being produced in Germany.

– Eli Yishai

We are losing the Jewish people in the Diaspora.

– Eli Yishai

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.

– Eli Yishai

One cannot forsake the security of Israelis.

– Eli Yishai

Democracies take time.

– Eli Yishai

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.

– Eli Yishai

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.

– Eli Yishai

Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.

– Eli Yishai

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

Admitting hundreds of thousands of infiltrators is an existential threat to the State of Israel.

– Eli Yishai

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.

– Eli Yishai

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.

– Eli Yishai

If you want to be Jewish, welcome, but convert via the Halacha.

– Eli Yishai

I support peace.

– Eli Yishai

The true and correct solution to eradicating discrimination is by establishing religious Sepharadi educational institutions. This is one of the reasons Shas was founded.

– Eli Yishai

If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah.

– Eli Yishai