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Quotes

President Rivlin’s remarks on Jerusalem Day

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“My Jerusalem is Zion and Zionism, and yet it does not belong only to its history. It belongs first and foremost to its people, and to all its residents: secular, religious and Haredi, Arabs and Jews. And in my united Jerusalem there is west and there is an east, and there are no second-class sons, there are no second-class Jerusalemites. We completed the physical unification of the city, but the task of unifying the city’s social and economic lives has barely begun.” (Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at an event in commemoration of Jerusalem Day, 17/05/2015)