Eli Yishai

(IsraelNN.com) It was fascinating to follow the media on the day after the revelation of the identity of the suspected murderer of the Oshrenko family. The suspect turned out to be a disgruntled and jealous former employee – an immigrant from Russia, like the victims – who confessed to police that he hacked his boss's family to death. As expected, the media gave prominence to all those who spoke against the racist tones that lumped together all of the immigrants from Russia as if they were one violent mas  

Jewish Israelis moved into the home of a Palestinian family in eastern Jerusalem after a court ruled that it was Jewish-owned. After a Jerusalem district court on Tuesday denied the Palestinian residents appeal to remain in the home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, the Jews arrived at the home with security guards and attempted to vacate the family, according to reports. The Jews and Palestinian residents, as well as human rights activists, scuffled, leading to the arrests of some area residents.  

Earlier this week, Interior Minister Eli Yishai spoke out about the dangers of allowing asylum seekers to enter Israel. Among the risks he cited were claims that foreigners from African countries would introduce diseases like AIDS, hepatitis and tuberculosis among the Israeli population. Data received Thursday from the Ministry of Health revealed that Yishai had little evidence to back his statement and that the single study that has been conducted on the matter showed a relatively low morbidity rate am  

The British National Party has leapt on comments by Israel's Interior Minister, Eli Yishai, to suggest that the extreme-right party shares a common immigration policy with Israel. Mr Yishai claimed that foreign workers brought diseases into Israel and that their presence threatened the Jewish and Zionist identity of the state. He also attacked cabinet colleagues who were in favour of allowing the children of illegal foreign workers to remain in Israel.  

Not even the Iranian threat, the spread of poverty in Israel or the growing violence are as frightening to Shas leaders as what they consider the real danger threatening the existence of the State of Israel - the Gentiles. Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who has not let up in his struggle against the migrant workers and their Israeli-born children (in recent days, he surpassed himself by speaking of the threat of terrifying illnesses that the foreign workers might bring with them), has now found reinforcemen  

This Jack/Yaakov Teitel is being described as someone who acted alone in his attacks and planned attacks.  

(IsraelNN.com) Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Shas) said Tuesdy he would consider reducing the fee charged for renewal of a lost or stolen passport from NIS 1,000 to NIS 750. The recent raising of the fee to NIS 1,000 has led to a 30% reduction is reports of stolen or lost passports. However, Yishai said that the high fee was too great of a burden on the Israeli public and he intends to bring it back down to NIS 750 for a one year trial period.  

Absorption Minister Sofa Landver on Tuesday criticized the media's "racist generalization" of olim from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) following the arrest and confession of Oshrenko homicide suspect Dimitry Kirilik. "Talk of the need to check aliya candidates more strictly and change the Law of Return are unfortunate and racist," she told Army Radio. Such remarks are "an attempt to insinuate that a whole public from a certain origin has criminal tendencies."

focusing on tarnishing the image of olim who have contributed greatly to improving Israeli society during the last two decades   -Sofa Landver

 

Following the dispute caused by the Oshrenko murder case, whose alleged perpetrator immigrated to Israel in 2004 to avoid arrest for armed robbery, Interior Minister Eli Yishai suggested on Tuesday that Israel's "open door" policy was perhaps too lenient.  

Eli Yishai, Israel's Immigration Minister, has come out with some self-serving claptrap about the country's immigration policy.