A new Israeli political faction’s chosen name, Religious Zionism, was contested in the Knesset. National Religious Party lawmaker Zevulun Orlev wrote to the Knesset House Committee on Monday demanding that two former members of his party, Effi Eitam and Yitzchak Levy, be prevented from adopting the name for their breakaway faction.
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