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A man looks out from a minaret at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem on January 23, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 1, 2019, 10:48 pm
New Jerusalem mayor said pushing plan to quieten mosque loudspeakers
TV report says Moshe Lion’s initiative includes swapping out old speakers for more muted ones, allowing police to turn down volume of call to prayer
By TOI staff
MK Yoav Kisch (Likud), chairman of the Interior Affairs Committee at the Knesset, on January 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 14, 2018, 11:58 am
Likud punishes MK who refused to vote for Haredi draft bill
MK Yoav Kisch, a former fighter pilot, to lose Internal Affairs Committee chairmanship for failing to back measure exempting yeshiva students from IDF service
By TOI staff
A new mosque under construction on the main road of the Arab-Israeli village of Majd al-Krum, near the northern Israeli city of Karmiel, on November 8, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 20, 2018, 11:23 am
Bill will empower police to seize mosque loudspeakers – report
Ministers said to propose tightening controversial legislation limiting mosque noise by allowing confiscation of equipment, bigger fines
By Sue Surkes
View of the a mosque in the Old City of Acre, in Northern Israel on October 24, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 24, 2018, 9:54 am
Knesset to advance bid to muffle Muslim call to prayer
Committee will prepare two versions of controversial ‘muezzin bill,’ which has provoked indignation among Arabs
By Michael Bachner
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during Istanbul Youth Festival in Istanbul on May 4, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE)
May 8, 2017, 9:28 pm
Erdogan lashes ‘racist’ Israel, calls for Muslims to flood Temple Mount
Turkish president warns against moving US embassy to Jerusalem; slams mosque-muffling bill; Israel rejects his ‘baseless slander’
By TOI staff and AFP
A contestant in the "A Muezzin is Born" competition (Channel 2 screenshot)
April 1, 2017, 1:39 pm
In Jaffa, ‘A Muezzin is Born’ to protest Israeli bill
30 young men compete to be the next great Muslim prayer caller, in response to proposed mosque-muffling legislation
By TOI staff
Arab Israelis march in the northern Arab town of Kabul, near Acre, during a demonstration against planned Israeli legislation to silence mosque loudspeakers, on March 11, 2017. The writing in Arabic reads: 'Our mosques won't be silenced.' (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
March 11, 2017, 8:47 pm
Thousands of Arab Israelis protest mosque loudspeaker bills
Demonstrators say proposal to muffle muezzins is a provocation to all Muslims
By AFP and TOI staff
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is greeted by supporters upon his return to Gaza City on January 27, 2017. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
March 10, 2017, 8:01 pm
Hamas condemns mosque loudspeakers bill, warns of Arab backlash
Top Gaza official says controversial legislation to muffle muezzins ‘will not go over’ in Muslim world
By AFP and TOI staff
File: Soldiers of the Caracal Battalion prepare for a hike as part of their training on September 3, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 9, 2017, 4:24 pm
The rabbi gets a rapping
Everyone and their sister hits back at remarks from a pre-army religious school head disparaging female soldiers
By Joshua Davidovich
Illustrative image of a mosque and minaret (Public Domain/Wikipedia)
March 9, 2017, 2:59 am
Jordan says ‘Muezzin Bill’ is discriminatory, violates peace treaty
Minister warns Israel legislation would breach human rights conventions, infringe upon Jordan’s authority over holy sites in East Jerusalem
By TOI staff
An Israeli flag waves in front of the minaret of a mosque in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on November 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
March 8, 2017, 3:49 pm
‘Muezzin Bill’ passes first hurdle in stormy Knesset session
At charged first reading of proposal to muffle mosque loudspeakers, Arab MKs condemn measure as a ‘racist law’ and ‘declaration of war on Islam’
By Raoul Wootliff and Alexander Fulbright
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman meets with US Vice President Mike Pence, in Washington DC, on March 7, 2017. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
March 8, 2017, 2:00 pm
Liberman urges US exit from UN agencies during DC visit
Key witness in PM gifts probe said to ‘dramatically’ change police testimony; fresh bomb threats emailed to JCCs; minister blames Bedouin victim for getting killed by police
By Tamar Pileggi
Alden Solovy
February 20, 2017, 1:12 pm
Alden Solovy
Call to prayer
He holds his irritation with the loud Muslim early adhan at bay by casting it as ingenious protest or his own spiritual alarm clock
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Israeli ambassador to Ankara Eitan Naeh (L) are seen after Naeh presented his letter of credence to Erdogan at the presidential complex in Ankara, on December 5, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN)
February 13, 2017, 7:04 pm
Expanding settlements ‘absolute provocation‘ — Erdogan
Turkish president, on official visit to Bahrain, also slams Israel for trying to quiet Muslim call to prayer
By Sue Surkes
A mosque in the West Bank city of Nablus (foreground) and part of the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh in the West Bank, December 7, 2016. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
February 12, 2017, 8:00 pm
PA calls mosque-muffling bill an attack on religious freedom
Abbas says legislation ‘would drag the area into disaster,’ top Arab lawmaker says move is racist, vows call to prayer will outlast Netanyahu
By Dov Lieber and TOI staff
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