Knesset MK Shulamit Aloni of the Citizens Rights Movement was pelted with eggs and verbally abused by dozens of yellow-shirted members of Rabbi Meir Kahane’s nationalist Kach Party as she attempted to address a public meeting in Petah Tikva on Saturday. Police were summoned to extricate Aloni from the angry mob. Aloni delivered her speech some 90 minutes later than scheduled.
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