In addition to a new regulation banning denim jeans in the Knesset building, sandals - the classic Israeli footwear - have now been banned as well.



Journalists and citizens invited to testify before Knesset committees bitterly complained Monday that they had only been informed of the jeans ban and not that on sandals.



Exemptions were granted after committee heads called the head of Knesset security to ask that entry be granted to the sandal-footed visitors.