Yinon and Sapir Levi are residents of the Meitarim farm in the southern Hebron Hills. Last week, Yinon discovered that the United States had added him to a blacklist and would be imposing sanctions on him. The couple visited the Knesset on Wednesday to tell their story to Israel's lawmakers.

In an interview with Arutz Sheva-Israel National News, Yinon and Sapir say that they were only made aware of the issue a few days ago when a reporter called them on the phone and asked Yinon for a comment on the fact that President Biden added him to a blacklist. "I thought it was a mistake. I didn't believe it, that Biden would be occupied with me. I said that I thought there was a mistake, but after a few minutes I got a lot of messages and I understood that it was true."

The claim that he is dangerous sounds far-fetched to Levi. "They claim that a lot of settlers are dangerous," he says. "The anarchist leftist organizations that caused this are pained that we watch over our state's lands." Sapir, in turn, is having trouble understanding where the US gets the authority to meddle in Israel's domestic issues. "I call on the government to protect us from foreign sanctions and I don't understand why the bank is so gladly cooperating with this."

Regarding his legal status, which may have brought him to the blacklist, he says: "There was a complaint by Palestinians who complained to the police about a few things. I was in a few police interrogations and the police understood that the complaints were baseless and I was released after an hour or two. Nothing was left open."

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