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Israel Election Panel Orders Likud to Remove Billboards Featuring Arab Lawmakers

Israel's Central Elections Committee Chairman Noam Sohlberg ordered the Likud party to remove billboards featuring opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot alongside Arab lawmakers Ahmad Tibi and Mansour Abbas.

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What happened

01Election committee chairman Justice Noam Sohlberg ordered Likud to remove billboards.
02The billboards featured opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot with Arab lawmakers.
03The signs were deemed misleading due to their use of Arabic text in non-Arabic speaking areas.
04Justice Noam Sohlberg chairs the Central Elections Committee.

The committee ruled the signs misleading because they were advertised in Arabic in areas where most residents do not read the language. The Likud party was instructed to take down the advertisements.

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