Raphael Ahren is the diplomatic correspondent at The Times of Israel.
Illustrative: UAE Interior Minister Sheik Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, center, participates in a Gulf Cooperation Council interior ministers gathering to discuss regional security issues in Manama, Bahrain, Nov. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
Israel on Wednesday officially joined the International Security Alliance, an Abu-Dhabi-based group fighting organized and transnational crime, becoming its tenth member.
The ISA’s members, including Morocco, agreed on Israel joining the organization.
The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, which was involved in the process, declined to comment, but diplomatic sources told The Times of Israel that the ISA is an “important organization” and that Israel’s joining is a “very significant event.”
The suspect was to be brought Thursday for a remand hearing at the Beersheba Magistrate’s Court.
Police said in the statement that they “view with severity any suspected criminal offense against public figures.”
Police added that they were “working to distance the suspects involved in such crimes from the public.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surrounded by security as he enters his car, after an unofficial surprise visit in Givatayim, near Tel Aviv on November 9, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
The development comes amid a recent crackdown on online threats against the prime minister.
Last month, the Ashdod Magistrate’s Court convicted a Beersheba man who threatened Netanyahu on social media. In June, Asher Ben Dor wrote on Twitter, “Anyone know about preparations to assassinate the prime minister? It seems the time has come, it seems to be that it has become unbearable.”