Naftali Bennett Quotes

Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people, and the modern presence there just cements this.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

Our eternal capital Jerusalem was and remains our top national priority.

After all, I think Jerusalem is part of the, of the world's heritage.

The capital of Israel is Jerusalem, no matter what.

I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.

A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel's capital.

Banaras is a mystical city. It is not easy to know that city well.

Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.

We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

United Jerusalem has been and will forever be the capital of the Jewish People.

Jerusalem will always be the capital of Israel, even if someday a peace agreement were to be reached.

I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.

Being a Jew and an Israeli are inseparable things.

The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it.