Likud MK Ayoub Kara threatens Prime Minister Netanyahu that if he won’t make him a minister, “there will be surprises.”
Kara, a member of the Druze community, says in an interview on the Knesset Channel that “it is inconceivable that there will be no Druze minister at the cabinet table – representing 20 percent of the non-Jewish citizens.”
Kara has been serving as an MK for the four past Knessets. He was elected in 1999 and then served as deputy speaker of the Knesset. He served in other positions in parliaments that were elected since.
In the interview, Kara is quite adamant: “There will not be a government that ignores the thousands of soldiers and Druze officers deployed along the borders of Israel, hurt by the nation-state bill and who need [the state] to embrace them again – to tell them: ‘You are part of the country.’”
Kara added that members of the Druze community, known for thir high volunteer rate for combat positions in the IDF, “were not only born for war, they were also born to sit at the cabinet table.”
Kara is 24th on the Likud’s slate.
Ayoub Kara (photo credit: Flash90)
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