An Israeli legislator set off an uproar during a committee meeting Monday, when he dubbed non-Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union a “fifth column” and a security threat. Knesset member Shmuel Halpert, a member of the fervently Orthodox United Torah Judaism bloc, said such immigrants included all sorts of “unsavory” types.
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