THE mayor of the Costa del Sol town embroiled in an anti-Semitism row after an effigy of Benjamin Netanyahu was blown up at an Easter festival has defended the spectacle as a tradition dating back over a century. Israel’s foreign ministry summoned Spain’s chargé d’affaires for a formal reprimand earlier this week after a seven-metre-tall puppet of the Israeli prime minister was detonated in the town of El Burgo, near Malaga, during Semana Santa celebrations. The towering figure was packed with 14kg of gunpowder before being obliterated to pieces amid whooping cheers from the packed crowd. But local officials have...