Arab MK Ahmed Tibi has filed a request with Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin to expand the mosque in the Knesset sanctuary. The room is narrow, Tibi claims, and has no fan, and it must be expanded. The Arab MK said he filed the request on behalf of the increasing number of Muslims who come to pray at the Knesset.
Knesset Speaker Rivlin responded that within a year, a new wing of the Knesset would be ready, thereby freeing up space to enlarge the room currently used as a mosque.
MK Gila Finkelstein (NRP) called Tibi's request a provocation. "I pass through the corridor opposite the Knesset mosque dozens of time a day," she said, "and never have I seen one worshipper there - not even Tibi himself."
Knesset Speaker Rivlin responded that within a year, a new wing of the Knesset would be ready, thereby freeing up space to enlarge the room currently used as a mosque.
MK Gila Finkelstein (NRP) called Tibi's request a provocation. "I pass through the corridor opposite the Knesset mosque dozens of time a day," she said, "and never have I seen one worshipper there - not even Tibi himself."