Jerusalem’s deputy mayor issued an apology after he was quoted in a newspaper as saying that Russian immigrants were bad for Israel. Haim Miller said his remarks had been taken out of context. The reporter who interviewed him played a tape before a Knesset committee, and the fervently Orthodox politician could be heard denouncing the immigrant population as bringing “corruption and pork” into Israel.
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