Eli Yishai
Eliyahu " Eli " Yishai (Hebrew אליהו " אלי " ישי; born December 26, 1962 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli politician and leader of the Orthodox Shas party.
Since 17 June 1996, he is member of the Knesset. The incumbent cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu ( Likud ), he was up to March 18, 2013 Minister of the Interior and one of the four deputy prime ministers.
Positions
In May 2009, Yishai refused to grant the Holy See have jurisdiction over the holy Christian sites, thereby contributing to the escalation of the conflict regarding the implementation of the Master Agreement between the Vatican and Israel of 30 December 1993 on the juridical status of the Catholic sites in Israel in, which is not yet solved until today (2012 ).
Yishai sees illegal immigrants lump sum as a threat and a source of diseases such as AIDS or hepatitis. Asylum seekers should be brought into voluntary labor camp to work off there the products resulting from the processing costs free of charge. Homosexuals are in his opinion sick, and the Palestinian Hamas, he would " wipe out ".
In 2010 he defended the deportation of 400 children of illegal immigrants to the Knesset with the argument that these immigrants the only justification in Israel must be taken to remain, namely their "Baby visas" ( "the only criterion for staying [ in Israel ] is the, baby visa '. " )
2012 said Jishai in an interview with Ma'ariv: "Muslims who come here, do not even believe that this country belongs to us, the white man. "
After devastating forest fires in northern Israel in late 2010 threw journalists Yishai, who was responsible for the fire, failure to face and demanded his resignation.
On April 8, 2012 Yishai announced that Günter Grass due to its controversial poem What needs to be said persona non grata in Israel was and said: "I consider it an honor to forbid him entry to the Holy Land ." Grass was slipped to him in the category " Nazi." Furthermore, Yishai had asked the Nobel Committee to Grass deprive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The committee rejected this demand categorically.
In summer 2012, Yishai wrote to Chancellor Merkel and called on them to stand up for the right to circumcision of newborn males for religious reasons (Brit Milah ). The Central Council of Jews in Germany rejected his claim. "Neither the Chancellor nor the Federal Government need teachings of Israel," the Secretary-General Stephan Kramer told the " Berliner Zeitung ".
Chaired by Eli Yishai, the Shas party had 12 MPs in Parliament. Jishai is the solution "land for peace " as an alternative for a compromise with the Palestinians not opposed to, as he is not willing to compromise on the status of Jerusalem. In March 2013 he was replaced by Gideon Sa'ar as interior minister.