Eli Jishai

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Eli Jishai

Elijahu "Eli" Jishai ( Hebrew אליהו "אלי" ישי; * 26. December 1962 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli politician and former chairman of the ultra-Orthodox Shas - party .

He has been a member of the Knesset since June 17, 1996 . In the cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu ( Likud ) he was Minister of the Interior and one of the four Deputy Prime Ministers until March 18, 2013.

At the end of 2014 he founded a new religious party, initially called Maran (later Yachad ).

Jischai is the son of a Tunisian - Jewish immigrant, married and has five children.

Positions

In May 2009, Yishai refused to grant the Holy See jurisdiction over the holy Christian sites and thus contributed to the escalation of the conflict regarding the implementation of the basic treaty between the Vatican and Israel of December 30, 1993 on the legal status of Catholic sites in Israel, which has not yet been resolved to this day (2012).

Jischai sees illegal immigrants across the board as a danger and source of diseases such as AIDS or hepatitis and as drug dealers . Asylum seekers should be brought to voluntary labor camps in order to work off the costs arising from the procedure free of charge. In his opinion, homosexuals are sick and he wants to "eradicate" the Palestinian Hamas .

In 2010 he defended the deportation of 400 children of illegal immigrants before the Knesset , arguing that these immigrants should be deprived of the only justification for staying in Israel, namely their “baby visas” (“the only criterion for staying [in Israel ] is the 'baby visa' ").

In 2012, in an interview with Ma'ariv, Jishai said: "Muslims who come here do not even believe that this land is ours, the white man."

After devastating forest fires in northern Israel at the end of 2010 , journalists accused Yishai, who was responsible for the fire services, of failure and called for his resignation.

On April 8, 2012, Jischai announced that Günter Grass was persona non grata in Israel because of his controversial poem What Must Be Said , and declared: “I consider it an honor to forbid him from entering the Holy Land.” Grass was for slipped him into the " Nazi " category . Jischai had also asked the Nobel Prize Committee to revoke the Nobel Prize for Literature from Grass . The committee categorically rejected this request.

In the summer of 2012, Jischai wrote to Chancellor Merkel , calling on her to campaign for the right to circumcision of male newborns for religious reasons ( Brit Milah ). The Central Council of Jews in Germany rejected his interference. "Neither the Chancellor nor the Federal Government need instructions from Israel," said Secretary General Stephan Kramer of the "Berliner Zeitung".

Under the chairmanship of Eli Yishai, the Shas party had 12 members in parliament. Jishai is not opposed to the "land for peace" solution as an alternative to a compromise with the Palestinians, while he is not prepared to compromise on the status of Jerusalem. In March 2013 he was replaced by Gideon Sa'ar as Minister of the Interior.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Dan Williams: Israeli minister blocks zone deal for Church sites. In: Reuters . May 4, 2009. Retrieved May 26, 2012 .
  2. ^ Dana Weiler-Polak: Israel proposes work camps for illegal migrants . In: Haaretz . November 5, 2009
  3. ↑ Christoph Schult: Israel's Interior Minister: Rowdy on a radical mission . In: Spiegel Online . February 7, 2010
  4. ↑ Jonathan Lis: Eli Yishai tells Knesset deportations will stop foreign workers from using kids as “baby visas” . In: Haaretz . August 10, 2010
  5. ↑ Dana Weiler-Polak: Israel enacts law allowing authorities to detain illegal migrants for up to 3 years . Haaretz, June 3, 2012.
  6. ↑ Alex Fishman: The guilty party . In: Ynetnews . March 12, 2010
  7. ↑ "Anti-Semitic Man": Israel sanctions Grass with an entry ban . In: Handelsblatt . April 8, 2012
  8. ↑ Dispute over poem: Israel's interior minister offers Grass meetings at a neutral location . In: Spiegel Online . April 10, 2012
  9. ^ Nobel Prize for Grass: Academy rules out withdrawal . In: Spiegel Online . April 10, 2012
  10. ↑ spiegel.de August 23, 2012: Ethics Council speaks out in favor of circumcision
  11. ↑ http://de.euronews.com/2013/01/22/israels-partments-rechts-von-netanjahu/
personal data
SURNAME Yishai, Eli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jischai, Elijahu; Yishai, Eli; Yishai, Eliyahu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem