Eilat worries over rising tension with migrants

10.06.2012                      20.Siwan. 5772

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Eilat worries over rising tension with migrants

There are around 7,000 African infiltrators residing in Israel's southernmost city, a higher proportion than TA.

Eilat could descend into lethal, racial conflict between veteran Israeli residents and the city’s African migrant population if the influx of migrants continue and the government does not handle the problem effectively, residents and local officials told The Jerusalem Post this week.
“We have managed to keep things under control so far, but I have no idea how long it can last, the tension here worries me a great deal,” Eilat Mayor Meir Yitzhak Halevy said Wednesday, adding that his office is flooded on a daily basis with complaints from residents who say their children don’t feel safe in their own neighborhoods, which he said have been taken over completely by Africans….