Israeli police prevented two right-wing Knesset candidates from visiting northern Israel’s largest Arab city Sunday. Legislator Michael Kleiner and Baruch Marzel, who is running in the No. 2 spot in Kleiner’s Herut Party, had earlier requested police protection, adding that they would go to Umm el-Fahm armed.
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