Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home), who is responsible for settling the Negev Bedouin call the police commissioner's to distance himself from the remarks Israeli police spokeswoman Merav Lapidot and baseless accusations, against Yaakov Abu Alkian from Umm al-Hiran.
Minister Uri Ariel notes that after an investigation determined unequivocally that there was no evidence of suspicion of Yaakov Abu Alkian being a terrorist.
Minister Ariel emphasized that the police spokeswoman's repeated accusation that the deceased was a terrorist was a serious slander and an attempt to discredit a deceased man who was killed in an accident due to gunfire. Ariel said that the police should apologize to the Bedouin family for their words.