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Eli Yishai [1962-0] Israeli

Rank: 102
Politician, Former Interior Minister of Israel

Eliyahu "Eli" Yishai is an Israeli politician. A former leader of Shas, he represented the party in the Knesset from 1996 until 2015, also holding several ministerial posts including being Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Industry, Trade & Labour.

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Israelis are displaying buds of xenophobia.		101
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.		102
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.		103
The Land of Israel needs to build and be built, period.		104
Admitting hundreds of thousands of infiltrators is an existential threat to the State of Israel.		105
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.		106
I'm not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.		107
Democracies take time.		108
This stereotype that haredim don't serve in the army and contribute is false and always was.		109
The true and correct solution to eradicating discrimination is by establishing religious Sepharadi educational institutions. This is one of the reasons Shas was founded.		110
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.		111
We are losing the Jewish people in the Diaspora.		112
If you want to be Jewish, welcome, but convert via the Halacha.		113
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.		114
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.		115
One cannot forsake the security of Israelis.		116
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.		117
Construction in Jerusalem cannot be halted.		118
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.		119
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.		120
If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah.		121
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.		122
I support peace.		123
Put an end to talk on dividing Jerusalem. There can be no negotiations about Jerusalem.		124
It is inconceivable that ministers of the Israeli government choose a car whose features are unnecessary luxuries in addition to being produced in Germany.		125
Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.		126
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.		201
The state of Israel will stand as one entity against any attempt to boycott its products.		202
There is not another country that is as sensitive as Israel is to the rights of foreigners.		203
South Tel Aviv has turned into the garbage can of the country.		204
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.		205
There has always been this feeling among the religious public of, 'Why can't we all unite?' Shas, UTJ, Jewish Home... But, of course, the differences between the political parties in practice are too big to bridge.		206
I walk around haredi neighborhoods freely, and I actually receive a lot of positive responses from people.		207
One must know to lose honorably.		208
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.		209

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