Quotes from Eli Yishai

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

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.

I am not the type of politician who will tell you I am going to act for my own benefit. The answer is no, I will continue to serve the public.

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

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

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

South Tel Aviv has turned into the garbage can of the country.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is not another country that is as sensitive as Israel is to the rights of foreigners.

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.

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

The state of Israel will stand as one entity against any attempt to boycott its products.

Israelis are displaying buds of xenophobia.

One cannot forsake the security of Israelis.

Construction in Jerusalem cannot be halted.

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

We are losing the Jewish people in the Diaspora.

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

Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.