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Ministers push off debating equal rights bill aimed at reassuring Druze
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Ministerial Committee for Legislation delays for four months a vote on a bill seeking to ensure equal rights for Israel’s Druze citizens.
Labor MK Salah Saad, who introduced the legislation, slams the committee’s decision, saying the government had promised to address Druze concerns over unequal treatment following the passage of the nation state law and now was avoiding doing so.
“It seems that Netanyahu silenced the protests with promises he knew he would not uphold. A regime which lies to the public cannot expect the public to remain loyal to that regime,” he says in a statement.
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