7 Quotes About Jerusalem Beautiful words about the Holy City - 05-17-15 7 Quotes About Jerusalem Beautiful words about the Holy City 1. "The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven." -Benjamin Disraeli dome of the rock 2. "I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from." -Pico Iyer huldah gate The Huldah Gate 3. “You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries." -Elie Wiesel 4. “Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.” -Yehuda Amichai 5. “Where I go, I am going to Jerusalem.” -Rebbe Nachman of Breslov 6. “You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous.” -Winston Churchill jerusalem 1 7. “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." -David Ben-Gurion; Israeli Prime Minister, Knesset speech (December 1949) NO JEW HAS THE RIGHT TO GIVE UP (Eretz Yisrael) THE LAND OF ISRAEL

7 Quotes About Jerusalem

05-17-15

7 Quotes About Jerusalem

Beautiful words about the Holy City

1.

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

-Benjamin Disraeli

2.

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

-Pico Iyer

The Huldah Gate

3.

“You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? 
One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries."

-Elie Wiesel

 

4.

“Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.”

-Yehuda Amichai

 

5.

“Where I go, I am going to Jerusalem.”

-Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

6.

“You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous.”

-Winston Churchill

7.

“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."

-David Ben-Gurion; Israeli Prime Minister, Knesset speech (December 1949)

 

NO JEW HAS THE RIGHT TO GIVE UP
(Eretz Yisrael) THE LAND OF ISRAEL

By David Ben Gurion

"No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish People in Israel. No Jew has the authority to do so. No Jewish body has the authority to do so. Not even the entire Jewish People alive today has the right to yield any part of Israel.

It is the right of the Jewish People over the generations, a right that under no conditions can be cancelled. Even if Jews during a specific period proclaim they are relinquishing this right, they have neither the power nor the authority to deny it to future generations. No concession of this type is binding or obligates the Jewish People.

Our right to the country - the entire country - exists as an eternal right, and we shall not yield this historic right until its full and complete redemption is realized."

This quotation of David Ben Gurion made at the Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland in 1937, more than 65 years ago. At the Freeman Center, we quote this profound statement often.