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Tibi slams Ben Gvir for police failure to halt Arab crime: He doesn’t care
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleCarrie Keller-Lynn is a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel
MK Ahmad Tibi speaks in the Knesset plenum during a memorial ceremony marking 27 years since the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, November 6, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
Senior Hadash-Ta’al lawmaker Ahmad Tibi slams law enforcement and the government for their inability to stop a recent surge in violent crime in Arab communities.
“The Israel Police can stop this fight between crime organizations, but it doesn’t invest the effort,” Tibi says at the outset of his party’s Knesset faction meeting.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, Tibi says, does not prioritize countering crime, as “he’s busy instead dealing with prisoner dental treatments and shower time” — two terror inmate living conditions that Ben Gvir has tried to limit.
Since the start of the year, 102 Arab Israelis have died as a result of violent crime.
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