Daniella Weiss (born 30 August 1945) is an Israeli far-right Orthodox Zionist and a prominent figure in the Israeli settler movement, often referred to as the “godmother of Israeli settler movements“. She is the founder and leader of Nachala, a radical settler organization involved in establishing Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and she served as mayor of Kedumim from 1996 to 2007. Weiss was born in Bnei Brak, Mandatory Palestine, into a religious Zionist family with ties to the Lehi paramilitary group
People say to me, why don’t you explain to the Jews in the United States what is exactly behind your thinking? I explain, but I’m laughing because the right word for it, you have to brainwash all the time. You have to say, to explain it, to live it, to cope with it.
My husband says to me, why do you speak to your children all the time about Zionism, pioneers in Judea and Samaria, settling and settling? And all my family are settlers here, because this is the only way to continue Zionism. I want to have for the Jewish nation the promised land from the Bible, from the Pratt to the Nile, and I’m sure it will be. What about southern Lebanon? It is part of it, all of it, even parts of Syria, parts of Iraq.
