News Brief
7/19/2009, Tammuz 27, 5769
Ministers to Vote on Nakba Bill, Shalit Law
The Ministerial Committee on Legislation will vote Sunday on both the “Nakba Bill” and “Shalit Law.” Both laws face opposition; in the case of the Shalit law, the bill is reportedly opposed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
The Nakba bill is a scaled-down version of a law proposed two months earlier by MK Alex Miller of Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home). The law aims to prevent state funds from going towards ceremonies marking “Nakba Day,” a day on which many Israeli Arabs mourn the establishment of the modern state of Israel as a Nakba (“Disaster”).