MK Sharren Haskel (National Unity) tried to speak in the Knesset plenum while wearing her infant daughter in a sling.
Deputy Knesset Speaker Uriel Busso (Shas) told Haskel that the Knesset's legal adviser does not allow speaking while carrying children, and asked Haskel to step off the platform.
Responding to the incident, Haskel wrote, "It is sad that the Knesset Speaker, who himself has twins at home, is choosing to prevent a woman with children from ascending the plenum platform and presenting a bill the way all Knesset members do. I bring my daughter to work not for provocations or 'likes' but because I am a mother and I want to integrate my motherhood and career, like every mother in the State of Israel."
"From the first day, I was committed to carrying my motherhood with pride and not with shame, not to hide or be embarrassed, but to prove to all women, no matter who they are, that you can and should normalize motherhood in every place, including in Israel's Knesset.
"Children are not an accessory and they are not anything which cannot be presented on the platform, it is part of us and of me personally. The Knesset Speaker has a voice and today he made a sad decision, and truthfully a humiliating and terrible decision for me and for other mothers."