In a post on Twitter, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu responded to Turkish President Erdogan's coments that Israel being a Jewish state "is blatant racism".
"Turkey’s dictator Erdogan attacks Israel’s democracy while Turkish journalists and judges fill his prisons. What a joke!" Netanyahu wrote.
"In Israel, no one is a second-class citizen. Israel is a democracy in which all Israelis, including our nearly 2 million Arab citizens, enjoy equal individual rights..." He added.
"But Israel is also the one and only Jewish state, with a Star of David on our flag, Hatikvah our national anthem, Hebrew our official language and where a Law of Return gives every Jew around the world the right to return to our ancestral homeland," Netanyahu finished.