Slippery Slope

MK Miri Regev, Chairwoman of the Knesset Internal Affairs and Environmental Protection Committee, ordered her security guards to prevent an Eritrean man from entering a bus she was travelling in during a tour the committee conducted in the Central Bus Station area of South Tel-Aviv. (972mag)

(Hebrew – Srugim)

Channel 2′s political correspondent, Rina Matzliach, says she refrained from reporting on Eldad Yaniv and his Eretz Chadasha party in order to deny them public exposure before the elections.

(Hebrew – 103fm)

The Samaria Residents’ Council sent representatives as observers to polling stations in Arab villages in order to “protect the integrity” of the elections. (Arutz7)

(Hebrew – Arutz7)

Following a meeting between Ynet’s political analyst, Attila Somfalvi, and Knesset candidate Eldad Yaniv (Eldad Yaniv), the site’s management decided to punish Somfalvi by not letting him publish any commentary columns during the next month, even though it is the height of election season.  As part of his political campaign, Yaniv has targeted Ynet and Yediot Aharonot owner Noni Mozes.

(Hebrew – The Marker)

In a post on his facebook page, Somfalvi has denied all of the above.

(Hebrew – Walla!)

The Knesset’s Ethics Committee announced that it has decided to deduct four days’ pay from the wages of Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman (Likud-Beitenu) for missing 22 plenum sessions – four more than permitted – in the Knesset’s summer session. (Ynetnews)

(Hebrew – Ynet)

Dr. Gilad Natan, a researcher in the Knesset Research and Information Center was recently removed from his post because of left-wing views he had expressed outside his workplace.  The Knesset management explained that the decision was made because Natan harmed the MKs confidence in the center’s research papers, but admitted that “no fault had been found in his research.”  A team of Knesset officials, including the Knesset director general, its legal adviser and the head of the Knesset Information Division – with the blessing of Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin – decided to reassign Natan to a position in the Knesset Archive. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

Eli Ben-Dahan, who is placed fourth in the Bayit Yehudi party’s candidate list for the Knesset, said that same sex marriage are a  “recipe for the destruction of the Jewish people.” (Times of Israel)

(Hebrew – Walla!)

The Central Elections Committee has barred the Eretz Chadasha party from using the name – Eretz Chadasha – The Front for the Toppling of the Plutocracy, claiming there is no proof of the existence of a plutocracy in Israel. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

The Central Elections Committee has barred MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) from running in elections to the Knesset. (Times of Israel)

(Hebrew – Walla!)

Chairman of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, MK David Rotem (Yisrael Beitenu), has asked the Central Elections Committee to bar Arab party Balad from the forthcoming elections to the 19th Knesset.  MKs Michael Ben-Ari and Aryeh Eldad (Otzma LeYisrael) asked to bar both Balad and Ra’am-Ta’al, another Arab party, while MK Ofir Akunis (Likud) has asked that MK Hanin Zo’abi (Balad) be disqualified as a candidate. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)