Yisrael Eichler
![MK Yisrael Eichler attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, July 28, 2024.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=700/2024/07/29/37195f50-4d8a-11ef-a8a8-27fa25dcdbd2__h268_w400.jpg)
United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler launched a scathing critique of U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris during a speech at the Knesset plenum on Sunday. Eichler's comments come at a time of heightened sensitivity in U.S.-Israel relations.
![Eichler in another harsh statement: "The regime is hostile to us"](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/09/12/32ffb370-5186-11ee-94e0-0743c16fa7d9__h331_w650.jpg)
"The Regime is Hostile to Us"
MK Eichler continues to cause a stir: during a mezuzah setting ceremony he criticized the state's conduct towards the ultra-Orthodox in the State of Israel. According to him: "Our spiritual existence is not guaranteed, under the regime that is hostile to us"
![Smotrich attacks: his views do not represent the ultra-orthodox public](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/09/11/c70091b0-50b5-11ee-aca0-99f54da11c9c__h331_w650.jpg)
Smotrich Criticizes Eichler
Minister Bezalel Smotrich published a video in response to Knesset member Yisrael Eichler's words against the Zionist movement: "You have to be blind and ungrateful to not see the miracle"