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‘We’d love to understand’: Firebrand Likud MK interrupts Arabic-language Knesset speech
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleCarrie Keller-Lynn is a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel
Freshman Likud MK Tally Gotliv interrupts Ra’am lawmaker Yasser Hujirat during his maiden speech on the Knesset floor, saying “we’d love to understand” when Hujirat switches to Arabic.
Presiding over the plenum, Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy tells Gotliv that “there is no prohibition” against delivering a speech in Arabic — an official language in Israel — in the chamber.
Gotliv has made similar interruptions during Arabic-language floor speeches since the Knesset session started last month.
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