Uploaded December 2011 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
I apologize for not making this a subtitle file. If someone would like to turn this translation into SRT format, I'll be happy to add it.
(The original of this video can be found at youtube.com/watch?v=3d7wHSaQ3L0)
Two weeks ago, I went to visit Jonathan Pollard in prison. I was in the US, and I'm walking down the street with my friend Shmuel Sackett, and I see a picture of a man, like an ad, stuck on a utility pole. I ask him what it is, and he tells me, "It's a judge. He wants to get elected." A family court judge in the neighborhood. Can you even imagine something like that in the State of Israel?
I want you, the citizen, whether directly or by representation, to elect the judges in this state. For example, a candidate for the supreme court would have a hearing. Just like a judge in America has to have a hearing before Congress. An open hearing. Open to all the media. And everyone will be able to ask them the most intrusive questions. What he believes. What he thinks about family values. What he thinks about Jewish values.
We want to change the method of government. We want to move to regional elections all over the country. So that the people elect their representatives to parliament. Not parties, but their individual representatives. By means of regional elections, we will bring the central power down to the communities, which will actually encourage the creation of communities. Community structure is the basic structure of the Jewish People, which has effectively been erased with the establishment of the state. Most taxes need to stay within the community. In this way, we will also encourage individual enterprise. We will encourage the free market.
I'll give you an example. Today, in the State of Israel, the education budget is one of the highest in the world. Which is great. But teachers' pay is one of the lowest in the world. How does this happen? You see that the system ultimately exists for itself, and not to provide services for anyone. Give the power back to the people. Give the power back to the communities. And give people back responsibility for their fate.
We want to become a free state. We want to be free people.
I apologize for not making this a subtitle file. If someone would like to turn this translation into SRT format, I'll be happy to add it.
(The original of this video can be found at youtube.com/watch?v=3d7wHSaQ3L0)
Two weeks ago, I went to visit Jonathan Pollard in prison. I was in the US, and I'm walking down the street with my friend Shmuel Sackett, and I see a picture of a man, like an ad, stuck on a utility pole. I ask him what it is, and he tells me, "It's a judge. He wants to get elected." A family court judge in the neighborhood. Can you even imagine something like that in the State of Israel?
I want you, the citizen, whether directly or by representation, to elect the judges in this state. For example, a candidate for the supreme court would have a hearing. Just like a judge in America has to have a hearing before Congress. An open hearing. Open to all the media. And everyone will be able to ask them the most intrusive questions. What he believes. What he thinks about family values. What he thinks about Jewish values.
We want to change the method of government. We want to move to regional elections all over the country. So that the people elect their representatives to parliament. Not parties, but their individual representatives. By means of regional elections, we will bring the central power down to the communities, which will actually encourage the creation of communities. Community structure is the basic structure of the Jewish People, which has effectively been erased with the establishment of the state. Most taxes need to stay within the community. In this way, we will also encourage individual enterprise. We will encourage the free market.
I'll give you an example. Today, in the State of Israel, the education budget is one of the highest in the world. Which is great. But teachers' pay is one of the lowest in the world. How does this happen? You see that the system ultimately exists for itself, and not to provide services for anyone. Give the power back to the people. Give the power back to the communities. And give people back responsibility for their fate.
We want to become a free state. We want to be free people.
