A Shas legislator apologized for comparing Israel’s attorney-general to Hitler. Yair Peretz on Dec. 25 called Elyakim Rubinstein “worse than Eichmann” — a reference to Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann — and Hitler, after Rubinstein recommended lifting Peretz’s immunity as a Knesset member so he could face corruption charges.
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