With Netanyahu's help, 'racist' party member could become MP

The bespectacled man was given a hero's welcome when he arrived for the party on the recent Jewish holiday of Purim, with teenagers singing and applauding around him. Itamar Ben-Gvir was on the streets of Hebron, a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank, among Israeli settlers revelling while disguised and masked according to Jewish tradition. The support for him there was a sign of why he may soon become a member of Israel's parliament as part of an extreme-right party many view as racist -- helped along by a deal brokered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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