Israeli police prevented two far-right activists from visiting an Arab town. Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir had planned to travel to Sakhnin, in the Galilee, on Tuesday to protest what they called illegal building by Israeli Arabs. But the two ex-members of the outlawed Kach movement were stopped outside the town by police, who cited concern that the visit could spark Arab rioting.
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