A person who allegedly threatened Public Security Minister Omer Barlev online has been arrested, the Ynet news site reports.
The suspect, 27, wrote online of Barlev that “I hope you get lynched, you traitor,” according to the site.
Barlev has come under fire over the past day for denouncing “settler violence” in a meeting with a US official.
Ra’am party leader Mansour Abbas attends a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on October 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The suspect’s lawyers call the arrest “unnecessary and harmful,” but a judge orders him kept behind bars until Wednesday.
The site also reports that the head of the Ra’am party, MK Mansour Abbas, has gotten a security detail after threats against him for joining the governing coalition.
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