"It is painful to say what I am going to say now, particularly painful to say it in this country, but taking full responsibility for what I say, the only fitting word for what happened in this city in the two days after Yom Kippur is 'pogrom'. People were expelled from their homes, which were set on fire, for no other reason than that they were members of a religious and ethnic minority. These people, fourteen families, have not yet gone back to their homes – they are afraid to go back, and they have a good a reason to be afraid".

"With this pain we came here today express solidarity, to say to the democratic people in Acre: You are not alone! You are not alone, also and especially in these dark days. When the darkness in great, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. We have come here to light a candle. You are not alone, also because we all live in mixed cities. Haifa is a mixed city, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa is a mixed city, and so are Ramla and Lod. A disaster like what happened here in Acre can happen tomorrow also in Lod, or in Ramla, or in Jaffa. It is our task to express solidarity and look at what happens where we live, to make sure that such things do not happen again. The best answer to rampant nationalism and racism is what we see here, where Jews and Arabs stand together, and will continue to stand together in solidarity and amity".