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Thursday, November 24, 2016
Bennett: The fires are terror, we will find perpetrators
Education Minister Naftali Bennett calls the fires breaking out across Israel terrorism in the form of arson and vows to bring those responsible to justice.
“This a major wave of arson… Terrorism in every sense of the word,” Bennett says. He says ministers are to meet on the issue, and that the perpetrators will feel “the full weight of the law.”