"The wording of the current bill and the way it was passed is harmful because it does not include the basic tenets and the basic components of the Jewish state as they have been defined over the past 70 years, a commitment to Israel as a Jewish and a democratic state, based on the values of the Declaration of independence, this commitment, this phrase does not appear in the legislation."
January 1, 1970
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Basic_Law%3A_Israel_as_the_Nation-State_of_the_Jewish_People