We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

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.