Likud MK Oren Hazan says he has been receiving death threats on Facebook, posted to his page by Arab and Turkish internet users.
According to a report in Hebrew-language daily Maariv, several people posted images of bloody knives, people wearing ski masks and photos of victims of recent terror attacks, accompanied by slogans calling for the murder of Jews.
Following the complaint, the Knesset transferred the matter to the hands of Israel Police.
Hazan told the paper today: “I live in Ariel [a West Bank Jewish town] and take these threats very seriously. Only a few days ago they marked the date of the assassination of Rehavam Ze’evi, who was murdered when he was staying at a hotel in Jerusalem.”
Ze’evi was the leader of the far-right Moledet party, which advocated a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by a forced population transfer.
“I also stay in hotels in the city, and I have no doubt that because I am an MK from Likud and because of my speeches at the Knesset, there are those who threaten my life. We are in the midst of a wave of terror attacks, such things cannot simply be brushed aside,” says the MK.
Likud Member of Knesset Oren Hazan during a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, June 15, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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