The Labor Party faction in the Israeli Knesset is scheduled to discuss Monday whether to reinstate the parliamentary responsibilities of a party legislator who was suspended in July following remarks considered offensive about some Moroccan Jews. Ori Orr, who has met with representatives of some of Israel’s Sephardi communities, is expected to have his duties reinstated.
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