Israel court bars extreme-right election candidate Ben-Ari
Ari, from the Jewish Power party, has been banned from standing in elections (AFP Photo/GIL COHEN-MAGEN)/ Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's supreme court on Sunday disqualified the controversial leader of the extreme-right Jewish Power party, Michael Ben-Ari, from running in next month's elections. Ben-Ari has come under fire for comments he made about Israeli Arabs, which Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said earlier this month amount to "incitement to racism". The elections committee had approved Ben-Ari to run in the April polls, but the ...
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