National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says he will call on the Shin Bet to investigate the ongoing surge in violent crime in Arab communities.
“I asked the Shin Bet to come in and investigate all of the murder cases in Arab society,” the Otzma Yehudit leader says, in remarks to open his Knesset faction meeting.
Security and legal officials have come out against the expansion of the Shin Bet’s mandate from terror to domestic crime.
Ben Gvir says his yet-to-be-enacted plan to expand a National Guard with 1,000 new police officers will help solve the problem, which he also blames on his predecessors.
The far-right party leader also sends a message to his coalition, which is currently negotiating with the opposition on changes to the judiciary in order to solve a national rift over the government’s judicial overhaul plan.
“We don’t have a mandate to do a fake reform,” he says. “We can’t disappoint our voters.”
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