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World Jewish News
Nakba bill approved in Knesset committee
19.07.2009
An Israeli cabinet committee approved a toned-down version of the Nakba bill.
The new bill would prohibit the funding by the state of activities that mark the Palestinian Nakba, or the Catastrophe, which takes place on Israel's Independence Day and is marked as a day of mourning.
The bill is a softened version of a bill proposed two months ago by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party that would have prohibited Israeli Arabs from marking the Nakba.
The bill, which must pass three votes in the full Knesset, was approved by all but one of the members of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee
Источник: JTA
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