During a tour of south Tel Aviv this morning, Union of Right Wing Parties chairman Rafi Peretz says that while the government must find a solution that sees the thousands of African migrants currently residing in Israel booted from the country, the state also “has a responsibility to care for their well-being” while they’re here.
The comments immediately spark an uproar within his faction, which includes the extremist far-right Otzma Yehudit party.
URWP’s No. 7 candidate, Otzma Yehudit’s Itamar Ben Gvir, releases a statement chastising Peretz for his remarks, saying the only thing he, Ben Gvir, is concerned about is “sending the infiltrators back to where they came from with nothing more than the clothes on their backs,” and adding that the state’s care for African migrants has come at the expense of Israelis, particularly those in south Tel Aviv.
— Jacob Magid
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