Lehava leader Bentzi Gopstein's lawyer, Itamar Ben-Gvir, responded to the arrest of Gopstein for criminal threats. Ben-Gvir said that in two weeks time police are due to respond to a petition by Reform Jews demanding that Lehava and Gopstein be brought to trial.
"It is possible that as a result of pressure by ultra left-wing groups, police have fallen in line with them and ostentatiously arrested Lehava activists without taking the trouble to summon them for investigation," Ben-Gvir said.