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Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Minister promises amnesty in drive to collect illegal firearms in Arab towns
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePublic Security Minister Gilad Erdan tells mayors of Arab councils in the Galilee that a new drive to remove illegal firearms from the streets of Arab towns will include the granting of amnesty to anyone giving up their guns.
At a meeting in the Galilee with Arab mayors, Erdan says that despite tensions between Arabs and Jews, rates of interethnic crimes — where Jews attack Arabs or vice versa — are actually quite low.
Just five to six percent of murders nationwide involve a member of one ethnicity killing a member of the other, he says.
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