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Police detain elderly man for allegedly threatening Netanyahu in social media video
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives to chair the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool)
Police say officers have detained and later released a man in his 70s from central Israel for allegedly threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a social media video.
The suspect, from the Sharon region — the coastal plain south of Haifa and north of Tel Aviv — is suspected of recording a video in which he “expresses himself, among other things, towards the PM, in a manner that constitutes a suspicion of the offense of threats,” police say.
After questioning, the man is released to house arrest, police add.
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