JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A soul-searching debate in Israel over government plans to deport 400 children of migrant workers took a new emotional turn on Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife pleaded they be allowed to stay.
Sara Netanyahu's appeal was snubbed by Israel's interior minister, an ultra-Orthodox Jew who advocates whittling down the number of foreign workers, many of whom reside illegally in the Jewish state.
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