Referring to recent massacres in Syria, Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara called on Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, Monday, "to open the meetings of the Knesset this week with a minute of silence for the helpless women, children and babies murdered every day every hour by a brutal dictator including the use of chemical weapons against them."

In a letter to his fellow Likud lawmaker, Kara added, "Israel as a neighbor and a democratic state cannot pay only lip service. The difficult scenes require identification beyond beautiful statements, especially after the use of chemical weapons and carnage this week."