Quotes from Eli Yishai
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
- 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
If you want to be Jewish, welcome, but convert via the Halacha.
- Eli Yishai
I'm not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.
- 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
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.
- Eli Yishai
The Land of Israel needs to build and be built, period.
- Eli Yishai
One cannot forsake the security of Israelis.
- 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
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
Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.
- Eli Yishai
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.
- Eli Yishai