Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Man, 63, arrested for inciting violence against Netanyahu

15 March 2023, 3:13 pm Edit

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting on the state budget, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 12, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting on the state budget, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 12, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

A 63-year-old Ramat Gan resident is arrested on suspicion of inciting violence against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a series of tweets, police say.

The man is currently being questioned by the police cybercrimes unit.

“There won’t be a dictatorship here, if that scum tries, he won’t be,” he wrote in one tweet.

“If the government of crooks and criminals passes the dictatorship laws, blood will be spilled here. This is what you want, this is what you will get,” he wrote in another.