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(IsraelNN.com) Member of Knesset Ofir Pines-Paz demanded on Tuesday that the Knesset Interior Committee hold an urgent hearing on the apparent deportation of 1,200 children of illegal aliens at the end of the school year. It is conceded that the move will probably take place although at the end of a ministerial meeting on the matter Monday night, the Prime Minister's Office said no decision has been reached and that another meeting will be held in a few days.

Pines-Paz said, "When I was Interior Minister, we found solutions for hundreds of foreign children to stay and there is no reason not to do so again." He said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should not capitulate to current Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who supports the deportation, adding that the children don't pose an existential threat to the country.