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Minister looks to cancel citizenship of fugitive ex-lawmaker Azmi Bishara
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleInterior Minister Aryeh Deri asks Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to give a legal opinion on whether he has the power to strip fugitive ex-lawmaker Azmi Bishara, who fled Israel as he was being investigated over allegedly spying for Hezbollah, of his citizenship.
“In light of the suspicions [against Bishara],” Deri writes to Mandelblit, “it appears the required conditions are in place for me to exercise the authority given to me to cancel [his] citizenship.”
Article 11 of the Citizenship Law allows the interior minister to cancel the citizenship of someone found to have committed treason.
Deri says Israel’s security services support the move, “which will have implications for deterring” future alleged spies, according to Channel 2.
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