Shim'on Cohen of the Ashkelon city council welcomed, Thursday, a raid by police on Wednesday, in which missionary material was seized at an apartment on Olei Hagardom Street in the city's Shimshon neighborhood. Police were responding to information provided by the anti-missionary group Yad L'Achim.
Interviewed by Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service, Cohen - who witnessed the raid - said, "I receiveda frantic phone callfrom a friend who told me aboutagroup ofmissionarieswho cameto the neighborhoodand distributed missionarymaterialfrom the apartment." He continued, "We called theAshkelonPolice, who arrivedwithin threeminutes."