A Labor Knesset member who was quoted making anti-Sephardi remarks last week was removed from all of his posts in the party. Amid a firestorm of controversy, Orr has refused a request from his party’s leader, Ehud Barak, to resign from his Knesset seat for the remarks, in which he criticized Israel’s Moroccan community.
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