A small group of women disrupt a Knesset ceremony honoring, among others, singer Eyal Golan, who has been investigated in the past on suspicion of sex with minors.
Likud MK Nava Boker, who chairs the Lobby for the Promotion of Israeli Music and arranged the event, respond to the hecklers by saying the investigation against Golan was dropped.
“To all the women who are shouting — this isn’t right,” she says. “He was acquitted and doesn’t deserve this.”
Knesset guards remove some of the protesters from the room and the ceremony continues.
A women’s rights activist is taking out by Knesset security guards after screaming at Israeli singer Eyal Golan during a ceremony honoring Israeli singers at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 11, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Five female MKs had asked Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein to rescind Golan’s award, but he declined saying the nomination process for the awards was done by a parliamentary lobby, not the Knesset, and therefore not under his control.
Golan was interrogated by the police in 2014 on suspicion that he engaged in sexual encounters with underage girls.
The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office later announced it would drop the charges due to lack of evidence.
Golan denied the allegations.
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