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Monday, August 13, 2018
Livni calls for Knesset meeting on questioning of left-wing Jews at airport
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleOpposition leader Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) calls on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to convene an urgent meeting of its Subcomittee for the Intelligence Services on the recent questioning and detainment of left-wing American Jews at Ben Gurion Airport, the Haaretz daily reports.
“The increase in incidents at Ben Gurion Airport is intolerable and this time Netanyahu’s state of the Jewish people stops for questioning at the airport a Jew on a bar mitzvah trip,” tweets Livni. “There is no limit.”
Livni is referring to questioning of Jewish-American author Peter Beinart at the airport. Beinart said earlier today that he was detained and questioned over his political views, when he landed in Israel to attend his niece’s bat mitzvah.
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