Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke at the start of a festive government meeting in honor of Jerusalem Day.
"We are holding a festive Cabinet meeting today on the occasion of Jerusalem Day. We have come here, to a spring. This is well known to many of you, in our navigation exercises we had to find the well. We go to the spring and it seems that this is a custom not easily lost because this is exactly what we have done. We have come here to Jerusalem, to the source of a spring, the source of our people and our heritage, the place whose living waters have sustained us for thousands of years."
"We are developing and building Jerusalem. Today we will advance an NIS 850 million supplement to the Jubilee Plan. This is almost NIS 1 billion that we are investing in the development of Jerusalem, in technology and in companies. The face of Jerusalem is changing. There is an interesting technological development here. From Zion shall go forth Torah, and it is going forth from the yeshivot; from Zion shall go forth software [tochna in Hebrew] – and it is going forth from the new companies that we are cultivating here."