Live Update
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Arab lawmakers walk out during Netanyahu speech
MKs from the Joint (Arab) List walk out during a Knesset session marking 67 years since the first plenary session as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks from the podium.
In a speech praising Israeli democracy, Netanyahu tells the plenary that Israeli values stand “on the other side to the ideologies we see in the Arab world today.”