Hundreds of supporters accompany far-right anti-migrant activist Sheffi Paz as she arrives at the Neve Tirza women’s prison in Ramla to start her 45-day sentence for acts of vandalism, including against the European Union diplomatic mission in Tel Aviv in 2020.
Paz, 72, who has for years campaigned against asylum seekers and migrants in her south Tel Aviv neighborhood, smiled and waved a megaphone as she got out of her vehicle.
The crowd waved Israeli flags and chanted “We are all Sheffi Paz.”
She had expressed no remorse for her actions when being sentenced.
In 2020, Paz broke into a preschool for children of asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv during the school day and the following year was banned from the Knesset after she called for the execution of a lawmaker who backed offering asylum to Afghan refugees.
She has also been detained over instances of graffiti against senior figures in the justice system.
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