The murder rate rises among Arab-Israelis
The government is sending in more police, who are not always welcome
AUGUST 11TH WAS a red-letter day for the Israeli police. A new division, headed by Israel’s first Muslim deputy commissioner, was inaugurated with the mission “to thwart crime in Arab-Israeli communities and to restore security to the streets”. In the Middle East, where no ceremony is complete without guns, weapons seized in raids on Arab neighbourhoods were put on display. Naftali Bennett, Israel’s prime minister, promised enough funding to triple the number of Arab officers in the force in the next few years.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Spies against crime”
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