Minister of Welfare Meir Cohen (Yesh Atid), participated today (Wednesday) in a panel held at the "Israel Today" conference and addressed the current wave of terrorist attacks: "We are experiencing difficult days. The fact that some of the attacks were carried out by Israeli Arabs You can see it on social media and in mosques in Israel. "
The witness added: "We must act harshly against the instigators, but we must not include an entire public, most of whom want to live together and their friends are law-abiding. Terrorism always happens when we want to thwart processes of normalcy. We are committed to stopping the difficult sequence of events."
Minister Meir Cohen in an interview with Noam Devol // Photo: go live
Minister Cohen referred to the wave of refugees from Ukraine and said: "Every war refugee who arrives, we receive him at the entrance to the State of Israel. The majority come with an address and host the same people. "Everything is needed. They are also given psychiatric treatment. Most of the refugees I am talking to are waiting for the war to end and they want to return home. They did not come to settle here."
Minister of Welfare Meir Cohen at the "Israel Today" Conference on Socio-Economic Resilience, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Referring to domestic violence, he said: "The Corona period has led to an 18 per cent increase in cases of domestic violence and a 25 per cent increase in adolescents who need to be admitted to post-hospitalization boarding schools.
He added: "I hope they will sign the agreement with the social workers. The starting salary is NIS 8,000 and each year there will be a significant increase. We will improve it because otherwise there will be no one to take care of the core problems of Israeli society."
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