Knesset Speaker Menachem Savidor wants to impose a dress code on Knesset members. He claims the way MKs and visitors dress shows disrespect for Israel’s parliament. Savidor plans to issue directives requiring male members to wear jackets in winter and regular shoes, not sandals in the summer. He will not insist on ties.
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