Adi Halpern, the Likud Party’s municipal election director, who has been preparing Mayor Shlomo Lahat’s campaign for the local council elections later this year, handed in his resignation Monday after a reportedly stormy meeting with Lahat.
The Mayor called him to his office to complain about Halpern’s remarks in the weekend edition of a local Tel Aviv newspaper in which he praised South Africa’s system of apartheid and said he thought this system should also be applied in Israel against the Arabs.
Lahat told Halpem he was strongly opposed to these sentiments and demanded his resignation, which was handed over on the spot.
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