Quote Of The Day

Quote Of The Day
There are those who think that in the drive toward "progress" and toward the renewed Hebrew-ite and Israel-ite, that Jerusalem is holding them back. There are those who try to depict Jerusalem a a city of the past with no future, a city of minorities, of Haredim and Arabs, a city with no Israelis, so to speak...
We have promised a united Jerusalem, but we have not kept our promise.We built Ir David, we established Maale HaZeitim, we redeemed the Churva from its ruins, but what have we done for Ras al Amud? What have we done for the children living in East Jerusalem that are unable to find an educational framework appropriate for them? What have we done for the postal services in East Jerusalem that are practically not functioning? for the hundreds of streets there that have no garbage collection?..
The United Jerusalem will not be built if we will not build it as one city with all its sections, if we will not unite it in a single urban framework, if we will not invest into the eastern side the same resources that are invested in the western side.
The Israeli discussion is not indifferent to Jerusalem, and it is not possible to be indifferent to it. Our constant issue with the question of Jerusalem, both from the Right and the Left, proves that it is perhaps the most relevant in the whole Israeli discussion. As long as there is someone distancing himself from Jerusalem, there is also someone getting close to her, and there will always be some like these, such as the paratroopers who only in Jerusalem will allow themselves to "break" and to lower a tear and to leave as believers from the wall of tears. 

  -- Speaker of the Knesset Reuven Rivlin