Burden Quote by Reuven Rivlin

There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the Jewish people.

— Ayelet Shaked

The fact is that you literally, by definition, cannot have a Jewish state and a democratic state and have a whole bunch of Palestinians…

— John F. Kerry

We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

If the choice is one-state, Israel can either be Jewish or Democratic. It cannot be both.

— John F. Kerry

“Dominated by Zionism's particular concept of nationality, the State of Israel still refuses, sixty years after its establishment, to see itself as a republic…

— Shlomo Sand

Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

— Yair Lapid

So Israel won't be a democratic state, so what.

— Sheldon Adelson

The State of Israel is a democratic country with a rule of law.

— Yoav Gallant

Israel is a Jewish state. It isn't a state of all its nations. That is, equal rights to all citizens but not equal national…

— Ayelet Shaked

Today, there are those who hallucinate that a democratic and Jewish state is only democratic for the Jews.

— Reuven Rivlin

We cannot keep the Jewish state without being a democratic state.

— Reuven Rivlin

Israel will not be deprived of its status as a strong, Jewish and democratic state.

— Benny Gantz