A television and social network campaign scheduled to start at the beginning of November will encourage young Israeli Arabs to join the police. Orchestrated by Minister of Internal Security Gilad Erdan, the campaign will feature promotional videos in which three prominent Arab police officers call on young people to join the organization. Considerable money and effort were invested in these clips.
It was also Erdan who promoted Arab police officer Jamal Hakrush to the rank of deputy commissioner six months ago, making him the first Muslim deputy commissioner in the Israeli police force. Hakrush was appointed to head a new division intended to improve police services in the country’s Arab localities. Erdan declared at the promotion ceremony, “This event bears genuine news, which took almost 70 years to be fulfilled. Until now, we failed to enforce the law equally within the Arab sector. If we are to be honest with ourselves, we cannot look at Arab society in Israel, with its violence and crime, and wash our hands of it as if we bear no responsibility.”
