Israeli police recommended that criminal charges be brought against a controversial Russian-born candidate for Knesset and a former aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. An investigation into Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Israel, Our Home Party, was launched last month after a newspaper quoted him as describing police investigators as “anti-Semitic racists” whose place was “in jail, and not as wardens.”
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