Joint Arab List MK Heba Yazbak has accused the Israeli government of using the Holocaust "for political needs and to justify the occupation of another people."

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"Of course, I don't agree with where Ibtisam Mara'ana's place is in in the Labor party as a Zionist party. I think she's supposed to be somewhere else," she said in an interview with Channel 13 News.

In social media posts last year, Mara'ana, now No. 7 on the Labor party list, said she enjoyed ignoring the siren on Holocaust Remembrance Day. She has since

Asked whether she herself stands during the siren, Yazbak, a member of the Balad party, said, "Honestly, it's an important and interesting issue. We don't stand for the Holocaust siren because it is a universal crime, and the Israeli government is trying to make it an Israeli-political issue, and it's not."

Yazbak emphasized the Holocaust was "a terrible crime, but what I'm trying to explain is that the government is trying to use this crime for political ends that will serve the country and the government."

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Head of the Israel Police Intelligence and Investigations Division, Maj. Gen. Gadi Siso, presented the MKs with an overview of what the police were doing to combat crime in Arab communities.

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Siso also said he supported an expansion to a five-point government program to make Arab communities safer.

The meeting ended with a decision to allocate resources for 620 additional police officers who will be assigned to the Arab sector in an attempt to contain crime. The additional manpower will be permanent. A decision was also made to transfer responsibility for handing organized crime among Israeli Arabs to the Lahav 433 Major Crimes Unit.

Erdan said he was willing to install security cameras throughout streets in Arab communities, with the intent of increasing deterrence. The police officials asked the Arab MKs to urge the residents of their communities to cooperate.

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