Member of Knesset Sharren Haskel (Likud) has written a letter to Chairman Yoav Kish of the Knesset Interior and Environmental Affairs Committee, demanding an urgent discussion during the Knesset spring break on the problem of agricultural terrorism, following the burning of irrigation pipes at Kibbutz Mizra in northern Israel, which caused more than 200,000 shekels damage.
MK Haskel said that "the farmers of Israel are the land on which the State of Israel exists and we are not allowed to abandon them. There is no correlation between the seriousness of the phenomenon of agricultural crime and the manner in which the police are responding, and the handling of the issue in the walls of the court is lacking." She stressed, "It is inconceivable that the State of Israel will boast and even export agricultural technologies on the one hand, and on the other leave the country's farmers at the mercy of bandit gangs."