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Monday, February 18, 2019
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Monday, February 18, 2019
Central Elections Committee officially bars PM from posting pics with IDF soldiers
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Central Elections Committee has ruled that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party are barred from publishing social media photos of the premier alongside IDF soldiers.
The decision is made five days after the committee issued a temporary injunction preventing the measure as it considered a petition by the Labor party. Then, Netanyahu mocked the interim decision as “amusing” in a video to his social media followers, ahead of his visit to a Navy base in Haifa — after which his office did release photos of Netanyahu with the troops.
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