Ayelet Shaked Gets Protection Amid Threats

Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home Party is one of 28 women elected to the Knesset. Image by FLASH90
Newly appointed Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home Party has been assigned a bodyguards after threats were made on her life.
Pictures showing Shaked wearing a Nazi uniform also have surfaced on social media.
The security detail was assigned to Shaked on Monday by Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, who expressed concern about the Nazi photo. A similar photo appeared in the days before the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Shaked, 39, has expressed a desire to weaken Israel’s Supreme Court, in particular by strengthening the legislative branch. She is a strong critic of the left wing.