The Jerusalem Post reports of a couple apparently involved in an argument on the streets of Jerusalem leading to the death of a female after her husband attacked her while she tried to get on a bus.

The 20-year-old woman who was stabbed and killed Monday in Jerusalem was allegedly attacked by her husband, an Eritrean citizen, according to an initial police investigation on Tuesday.

The investigation indicated that the couple was waiting at a bus station while the incident happened.

The woman was stabbed in the neck, stomach and thigh. Magen David Adom evacuated her to Jerusalem’s Shaare Tzedek Hospital in critical condition, where she died early Tuesday morning.

The suspect was able to escape and police were still searching for him.

The two were Eritrean migrant workers who married three months ago.

The investigation revealed that the couple had recently separated, because the husband had allegedly beat his wife. No official complaint was filed with the police.

According to the Jerusaelm Post, Katz warns Sudanese, Eritrean migrants “every day are advancing dozens of meters closer to Dizengoff on their way to Akirov and Ramat Aviv.”

The problem of African migrants in Israel is so dire that it requires the immediate building of a labor camp for asylum-seekers in the South, Member of Knesset (MK) Ya’acov Katz (National Union) said on Tuesday.

Katz, chairman of the Knesset’s Committee on Foreign Workers, presented his panel with a proposal on Tuesday to build a city for migrants a “reasonable distance” from the border with Egypt, which will be the only place in Israel that infiltrators are legally allowed to live in Israel.

Katz said the refugees will be employed in the construction of the city and the recently approved border fence with Egypt, as well as road construction projects in Israel’s south.

Such labor will be a burden on the infiltrators and will “encourage them not to recommend to their relatives to follow them to Israel,” he said.

“They might even ask to pay another $2,500 each to the smugglers who brought them here, so that they will take them back home,” Katz added.

In a press release issued on Tuesday titled “Tel Aviv: Wake up!” Katz said the Africans infiltrating the Sinai border threaten the state’s Jewish character and could negate its existence.

“Over the course of 100 years the people of Israel have built a Jewish state here. Over the next 10 years, the African infiltrators could change this forever,” Katz said.

“We are all together in the same boat which is in danger of sinking. The Titanic was a strong ship as well, but it also sunk in the end,” he said.

In the press release, Katz – without giving a source – cites figures showing that between 1,000 and 2,000 people illegally enter Israel through the southern border each month and between 22,000 and 25,000 already live here.

According to Katz, in six or seven years, that last figure will be between 75,000 and 100,000.

Katz said he recently visited Arad with his committee and “we couldn’t believe our eyes. The entire city has been conquered. The schools in Arad and Eilat are filling with Eritrean and Sudanese children. As of today, some 10 percent of the residents of Arad are Sudanese or Eritrean, Muslims and Christians.”

The “infiltrators” constitute an enemy “surprising us from the rear” and are part of a plot by “the leaders of Sudan and Eritrea, in cooperation with Egypt, to take over the State of Israel,” he said.

Katz warned that the “infiltrators” had already “penetrated [Tel Aviv’s] Hatikva neighborhood, have flooded south Tel Aviv and every day are advancing dozens of meters closer to Dizengoff on their way to Akirov [luxury towers in north Tel Aviv] and Ramat Aviv.”

“A long time ago, people stopped being surprised that the majority of Tel Aviv residents are willing to sell off Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. But surprisingly, in my eyes, they aren’t bothered that their city is turning into an Eritrean and Sudanese city,” Katz said, adding that it “boggles his mind that the secular, liberal and elitist public has lost the will to live.”

Also on Tuesday, Katz toured farms in the Arava along with other MKs, where he called on the government to drop limits on the number of foreigners allowed to work in agriculture.

Shevy Korzen, executive director of the Hotline for Migrant Workers, called Katz’s statements “appalling, racist, and xenophobic” and said she was “shocked that someone could say such things in Israel.”

Korzen also said that Katz’s figures were “baseless” and that over the past four or five years a total of 20,000 refugees entered Israel. She said Katz’s figures are “simply not true and are only meant to put fear into the hearts of Israel.”

“I think it’s extremely ironic that on the eve of Pessah, Ya’acov Katz, who is a religious person, seems to be missing the irony that he is suggesting that people who are running from persecution and are asking for asylum in Israel should be placed in camps that they will be forced to build themselves and be forced to work in hard labor. It seems he followed Pharaoh’s guidebook and is doing what was done to Jews in Egypt,” Korzen said.

EL AL 767

According to the Israeli newspaper HAARETZ the national airline of Israel (El Al) is blaming Eritrean air traffic controllers for an error last months, which nearly lead to a midair collision between an El Al plane and another aircraft over the Red Sea.

According to an Airline official a plane carrying 200 passengers was en route to the Far East when it received permission from air traffic controllers in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, to enter an international air lane.

However, the controllers neglected to tell the El Al plane how close it would be to another aircraft.

The pilots flying the Israeli plane, a Boeing 767, were alerted to the danger by the plane’s Total Access Communications System when they were only 700 feet from the other plane, and changed course to avoid a collision.

“The junction of the Red Sea flight corridor and the African air lanes is very problematic,” said Lior Yavor, El Al’s Senior Vice President of  Operations.

“El Al asked the Transportation Ministry to take care of the issue through official channels to reduce chances of a conflict.

The transportation minister has taken action and the incident is being handled by the chief air accident investigator, Yitzhak Raz.”

Flights from Israel to the Far East have to fly south over the Red Sea before turning east, because they cannot fly over most Arab countries.

The area near the Gulf of Eden is particularly dangerous because it is not  covered by radar, and plane locations are reported solely by radio. All El Al planes are equipped with TACS, which warns pilots when an unidentified aircraft is within 19 kilometers.

In 1998 the Israeli company was among the first in the world to furnish all of its planes with the technology, at a cost of NIS 5 million, three years  before it became mandatory.

An Israeli Newspaper called Harretz is discussing the option, that the attack on an arms smuggle convoy earlier this year in Sudan (capitaleritrea) could have been staged from a military base in Eritrea by the Israeli air force. read more: