(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

In the video, Matan Gavish, a fitness instructor, uses a cell phone on a selfie stick and puts it under the burqa of an Arab woman to find out if she has an explosive device on it.

Orit Sulitzeanu, director of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers, said that "the election of Defense Minister Liberman to present an act of sexual humiliation of Muslim women as a blessing for the New Year is twisted and distorted."

The Defense Minister's office said in response: "This is a humorous video for the New Year,