JERUSALEM: Israel’s controversial justice minister Wednesday admitted her mistake after posting a video online purporting to show a black migrant attacking a resident when the footage was apparently recorded in another country, foreign media sources reported.
Ayelet Shaked posted the video on her Facebook page Tuesday as the High Court was poised to rule on a law related to illegal immigrants with the aim of showing the “intolerable” situation facing residents of southern Tel Aviv.
“There was indeed an error,” Shaked, of the right-wing Jewish Home party, told army radio, adding she had removed the video from her page.
Some local media reported that the video had been recorded in Turkey.
Many migrants entering Israel illegally from Africa live in poor neighbourhoods in southern Tel Aviv.
