Extreme right activist Benzi Gopstein, on trial for inciting violence and racism, announced he would be calling Minister of Transportation Miri Regev as a witness for the defense.
Gopstein who was blocked from his bid to be elected to the Knesset heads an Israeli Jewish anti-assimilation organization has been publically vocal in his threats against Palestinians and in his call to oust migrant workers and asylum speakers from Israel.
Regev called African asylum seekers a "cancer" in 2012 while on tour in the southern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv where local residents called for the removal of African migrants and asylum seekers from the country.