A foreign migrant was arrested Sunday night for allegedly attacking Elazar Stern (Hatnuah) during the Knesset member's visit to south Tel Aviv. The allegations claim that the 28-year-old, from Eritrea according to an Army Radio report, followed Stern's entourage which was touring the central bus station in Tel Aviv, and began cursing at him and waving his necklace with a cross on it at the MK. When Stern ignored the man, the suspect went up to him and hit him on the head, knocking off his kippah. A police force that was in the area arrested the migrant, who did not resist and was taken to the local police station for questioning. Following the incident, MK Stern said: "Things that Israel would not accept happening anywhere else in the world are transpiring here from within. If they [the foreign immigrants] had been dispersed throughout other neighborhoods in Israel things would have looked different." Meanwhile the Ministerial Committee for Legislation unanimously approved on Sunday a bill proposed by Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar that would prevent illegal infiltrators from transferring money or property abroad while they are in Israel. Estimates place the amount of money transferred by illegal immigrants abroad at 680 million shekels ($187 million). The proposal would be the first time that money transfers by infiltrators or people transferring on behalf of infiltrators would be prohibited on criminal grounds. According to the drafted bill, infiltrators would only be allowed to take money out of Israel once they leave the country, and there would be a limit to the sum of money they could take out. The ceiling would be calculated by a taking minimum monthly wage and multiplying it by the number of months stayed in Israel. The bill also contains a humanitarian clause, allowing the transfer of funds in the case of a first-degree family member being in mortal danger.
