The speaker of Israel’s Parliament, as well as coalition and opposition leaders, are calling for allowing a controversial bill seeking “equality for the Arab population” to be brought to a vote. Knesset legal advisers have recommended that a parliamentary group reject the bill on the grounds that it undermines the existence of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people.
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