Israeli police arrest man over threat to assassinate Netanyahu – Middle East Monitor

Israeli police said Thursday they arrested a man who threatened to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The suspect, a man in his forties from the southern town of Kiryat Gat, entered a local police station on the eve of Rosh Hashanah and told officers he intended to kill the prime minister, Sky News Arabia reported.

In a statement, police said the man claimed he planned to buy a firearm and “shoot the prime minister three times.” He was taken into…