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(IsraelNN.com) The Ministerial Committee on Legislation Affairs on Sunday approved an amended "Nakba Law", named for the Arabic word for "catastrophe" that the Palestinian Authority and hostile Israeli Arabs used to describe the establishment of the modern Jewish State of Israel in 1948.

The revised bill states that public bodies receiving support from the State will not be permitted to spend any money on activities that deny the existence of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people or its democratic character; support an armed struggle or acts of terror by its enemies; incite to racism, violence and terror, and dishonor the State's flag or other symbols.Criminal charges for marking Israel's Independence Day as a day of mourning were removed. The measure now moves to the Knesset.