including hardline Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, would walk out of the chamber in protest. His rhetoric was so extreme that his party was banned, declared racist even by his own nationalist allies.

Yair Shamir, son of the former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, is No. 2 on Yisrael Beiteinu’s Knesset list. TEL AVIV (JTA) — Yair Shamir says he doesn’t discuss hypotheticals.