35 Quotes by Eli Yishai

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

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

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

Democracies take time.

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

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

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.

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

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.