Spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Abu Jamal (nom de geurre) issued a threat to kill Israeli MK Avigdor Lieberman on the PFLP radio program. He was speaking in response to the race riots instigated by an Arab driver in a Jewish neighborhood on Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement).PFLP is the terrorist group that assassinated Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze'evi.

MK Lieberman heads the Israel is Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu) party. He advocates relocating Israeli Arab towns to areas within the Palestinian Authority.