Benjamin Netanyahu said the natural growth of Israeli Arabs threatens the Jewish state. “If Israel’s Arabs reach 40 percent, the Jewish state will be canceled out,” the finance minister told a security conference in Herzliya on Wednesday. He called for increased Jewish immigration to counteract the trend.
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