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Election Committee Chair Orders Smotrich to Remove Video Featuring Children from Social Media
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First reported by Kikar HaShabbat · 37 minutes ago
What happened
Israel's Central Election Committee chair ordered Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to remove a social media video featuring children discussing reserve duty, following a petition claiming it violated election laws.
- 01Central Election Committee chair Noam Solberg ordered Smotrich to remove a video from social media.
- 02The video showed two girls discussing one girl's father not serving reserve duty for a year.
- 03The girls attributed this to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
- 04The NGO "Choosing in Israel" petitioned against the video for involving children in election propaganda.
- 05The order is a temporary injunction enforcing election law restrictions on children in political content.
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