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Israeli diplomats fume over MK Hazan’s protocol-breaking Trump selfie
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsraeli officials are livid over MK Oren Hazan pushing his way to the front row to snatch a selfie with US President Donald Trump.
“It’s a real embarrassment,” a senior Israeli diplomatic official who witnessed the event fumes in a private conversation. “He should be punished over this.”
Hazan, a troublemaker freshman lawmaker from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, was not meant to stand in the line of senior ministers and dignitaries shaking Trump’s hand, but elbowed his way to the front as Trump made his way down the receiving line.
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