Oren Hazan
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Police arrested a 41-year-old man suspected of making threatening comments to a Likud MK.

The suspect, a resident of Tel Aviv, was arrested Tuesday night after allegedly made comments via social media threatening MK Oren Hazan roughly two weeks ago.

After a complaint was filed in regard to the threats, police opened an investigation, culminating in a raid on the suspect’s home.

During the raid, the suspect was taken into custody and his computer and cellular device seized by authorities.

The suspect was held overnight and will be brought before a judge Wednesday for an extension of his arrest.

MK Hazan was indicted earlier this week for assault and insulting a public official; charges which stem from a confrontation between Hazan and the Director-General of the City of Ariel in 2014, before Hazan entered the Knesset.