Ra'am denies threat to coalition

• Author: GIL HOFFMAN
• Published date: 23 September 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

According to the KAN report, Ra'am complained that its votes were being taken for granted.

But the party later clarified that the report was wrong and said it was working constructively within the coalition and not through the press.

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his ministers faced criticism from current and former Arab MKs on Wednesday for not doing enough to end the recent spate of murders and crime in the Arab sector.

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh pointed out that there have been 90 Arab murders this year in Israel.

"They all have names and faces," he said. "The government can and must end this debacle and make a decision to end the crime and the murders immediately. We cannot wait for the next victim."

Former Likud minister Ayoub Kara said the ministers and MKs of the current coalition were "putting their heads in the sand as if such murders were an acceptable norm."

"Instead of protesting, they are cooperating with efforts to downplay this and trampling the state's self-respect," Kara said. "I call on the ministers to take charge, act like they control the land and prove that they care as much about the lives that have been lost as they care about their cabinet seats."

Current Likud MK Fateen Mulla, a former...