An Israeli lawmaker said an Interior Ministry proposal to naturalize the children of foreign workers was anti-Jewish. Interior Minister Avraham Poraz is “behaving as though he is consumed by some sort of disease,” Eli Yishai, of the fervently Orthodox Shas Party, told Ma’ariv online on Monday.
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