Aharonovitch slams Shaked’s designs on ministry

Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch (Yisrael Beytenu) criticizes Jewish Home MK Ayelet Shaked and her boss Naftali Bennett after the Jewish Home party announced it wants Shaked to serve as public security minister in the next government.

During a visit to families of the women who died in a Negev bus crash last week, Aharonovitch also slammed recent comments of Bennett’s that some analysts interpreted as a claim that crime and car theft are more rampant in the Arab sector.

“This was a very unfortunate statement by Bennett, with a populist bent,” Aharonovitch was quoted by the Kikar Hashabat news website as saying.

Aharonovitch also said “police will continue to give precedence to the [Arab] sector. Those who think there will not be thieves or burglars don’t know what they are talking about. Just as there are Arab… there are Jewish burglars and you cannot brand one area or one segment of the population. It’s not right.”