Minister of the Interior: "Those countries said we would wait after the elections because they want to be sure they are reaching an agreement with a government that will remain"

• Arie Deri // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

This year, we were almost finalized with two more states that would accept the infiltrators, but they told us to wait until after the elections, "Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said in an interview here on the network of Kalman Libeskind and Asaf Lieberman.

"We haven't been able to make decisions for a year and a half. What happened is that after a long legal hearing, and I commend the judicial system, we are given permission to send them to a third state, we have already closed everything. I tell you, this year we almost closed with two more countries that agreed , But they said we would wait until after the elections, because they want to be sure they reach an agreement with a government that will remain even after the elections. "

Interior Minister Arie Deri // Photo: Oren Ben Hakun

Minister Deri declined to comment on things that Minister Ayelet Shaked said during a tour in Ein Yahav on cancellation of pension payments to foreign workers in Israel. As we recall, Minister Shaked stated that after the elections, she would work to cancel pension payments to foreign workers, employed in agriculture, restaurant, building, nursing and industry. Deri said he was not familiar with the details and was not sure that such a decision would pass in court: "We need to examine what the rights of the workers are. I don't know what that means. We bring in the workers and I'm in charge of their rights."