MK Estherina Tartman (Yisrael Beiteinu) called for the expulsion of the family of the terrorist who carried out Wednesday's attack in downtown Jerusalem: ”If he really is a resident of eastern Jerusalem, who enjoyed Israeli benefits, we must demolish his house and deport his family to Gaza”.
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MK Aryeh Eldad (NU/NRP) said Wednesday that the "the murderous terror attack is a direct result of the surrender to terrorism, the policy of restraint and immoral deals with the terrorist organizations."
Eldad added: "The wounded and the relatives of those killed know that the people who are to blame for their disaster are the members of the Israeli government, who have ceased fighting terror."
Judaism forbids excessive mercy
MK Zevulun Orlev (NU/NRP) said Wednesday: "Those who did not expel the family or raze the home of the terrorist from Merkaz HaRav are responsible for the terror attack in central Jerusalem."
He added that in matters of life and death, Judaism forbids excessive mercifulness and said he intended to change the law so that "any worker who comes into contact with the public and receives his salary from the public coffers will have to undergo a security check, like civil servants."
The Council of Yesha Rabbis said Wednesday that "the delusional talk about peace and the lack of response to attempts to hurt Jews drive the Arab enemy to raise his head and kill Jews."
"The murderous terror attack is a direct result of the surrender to terrorism."
"The Arabs in Gaza and their brethren in east Jerusalem, who have the blood of many Jews on their hands, should face the same punishment."
Ramon: leave Tzur Baher outsuide fence
Vice Prime Minister Chaim Ramon said Wednesday that Tzur Baher, the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood which the tractor terrorist lived in, should not be a part of Jerusalem. Jerusalem should remain Jewish, Ramon said, and the neighborhood of Tzur Baher should be outside the security fence. The same thing, he said, was true of Jabal Mukaber, from which the Merkaz HaRav killer came.
Ramon conceded that even if Israel decided to separate Tzur Baher from Jerusalem, that would no
"The attackers do not cease coming up with new ways to strike at the heart of the Jewish people."t necessarily have prevented the attack, but "in the long run there would be a lot less terror attacks."
Industry Trade and Labor Minister Eli Yishai, chairman of the Shas party, demanded that the government destroy the home of the bulldozer terrorist. Police said the terrorist is a resident of eastern Jerusalem and is married with two children.
The Shas chairman stated that if the terrorist is an Israeli citizen, the law should be changed so that his citizenship can be revoked and his house destroyed. Officials did not destroy the home of the eastern Jerusalem terrorist who murdered eight Merkaz HaRav yeshiva students last March, explaining that doing so would be illegal.
Mayor's daughter escapes harm
"To our regret the attackers do not cease coming up with new ways to strike at the heart of the Jewish people here in Jerusalem," Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski stated Wednesday. His daughter of was one of the passengers on the buses targeted by the terrorist. The mayor said she was on the bus that managed to flee the attacker and that she was not hurt.
Shortly after the terror attack, the Knesset gave preliminary ratification to a law which gives the Minister of Interior the right to deny terrorists and their family members permanent residence status in Israel. Representatives of Kadima, Labor, Meretz and Arab parties voted against the law which did not have the government's support, but it passed nonetheless.
Another law that the Knesset passed today would prevent any sort of public or ostentatious mourning ceremonies for terrorists.
Both laws were proposed after the massacre at Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva and were on the Knesset's agenda for today.