Citizenship of Arab Israeli who crossed into Syria may be revoked

Interior Minister Silvan Shalom requests of Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to review the possibility of revoking the citizenship of an Arab Israeli man, from the central Israeli town of Jaljulia, who crossed the Golan Heights border to Syria on a hang glider Saturday night.

“Those who violate their loyalty to the state and endanger its security must be treated harshly,” says Shalom.

Large military forces were mobilized to the Golan Heights border on Saturday night after one of the military’s lookout positions along the border with Syria spotted a hang glider crossing from Israel and landing in Syrian territory in an area controlled by a rebel group affiliated with al-Qaeda.

The man, a 23-year-old, crossed the border in order to join a terror group based in Syria, the IDF said.