No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

He was elected on the 34th spot in the Likud list to the Knesset and the party received only 33 seats in the 13th Knesset. Minister of science
After a rotation with MK Michael Eitan Shalom on July 13 1998 became minister of science. In 1984 he was appointed as its head political and economical correspondent.

He previously served as the country's Foreign Minister Finance Minister Science Minister and Vice Prime Minister.