The day after police arrested four Eritrean and Sudanese men for robbing and raping a 19 year-old woman in south Tel Aviv’s Neve Sha’anan, Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai said that most African illegal immigrants should be rounded up and either deported or arrested

South Tel Aviv has become a center of African illegal immigrants, who primarily enter Israel with the aid of Bedouins through Sinai. All those involved in crime should be jailed, according to Yishai, and the majority of the remainder deported. “One cannot forsake the security of Israelis,” Yishai said. MK Danny Danon (Likud) wrote on his Facebook page that he will take steps to remove the illegal immigrants from Israel. “I intend to hold a national emergency hearing on the issue of the illegal infiltrators. The current situation is intolerable! We should expel all the infiltrators before it’s too late,” he wrote. Danon advocates evicting over 80% of illegal immigrants from Africa and Eastern Europe.