Mk Yael Cohen Paran (Zionist Union) arrived at the Knesset on Monday morning in clothing that did not comply with the dress code of the Knesset and was reprimanded by the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset MK Nava Boker (Likud). However, it was quickly determined that the dress code does not apply to MKs but only to visitors and Boker was forced to apologize.
Boker had asked Paran why she wasn’t keeping up the dress code, and Paran replied by stating that she had never been asked to do so before, nor had any other Knesset member. Boker said that while she is sitting in as the presiding speaker she will enforce the dress code. Paran stated that such a thing had never occurred and asked that Boker apologize.
Boker responded and said that she was permitted to inquire after the dress code, as after all there is one. Paran pointed out that the dress code was in place for the visitors not the members of the Knesset.
Another MK asked the Deputy Speaker why she was shaming MK Paran on the podium, at which point, MK Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin offered Paran her own jacket, Which Paran refused. “I have my own jacket here,” Paran said.
A commotion broke out in the plenum and Boker ended up apologizing for her remark. “I told Paran that I had made a mistake and that I thought that the dress code also applied to MKS. Apparently I was wrong and I told her that.”
MK Sheli Yachimovich (Zionist Union) responded to the incident and said: “This is absolutely crazy what transpired just now. Nava Boker, who is presiding over the plenum meeting, commented on what Yael Cohen Paran was wearing stating that what she was wearing wasn’t up to the standard of the dress code. This was a comment from one woman to another regarding the latter’s lack of modesty. There is simply no end to the Chutzpah intended by this comment. But what is more telling is that it is a dangerous sign of our times.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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What’s new? This is the knesset! It’s always been a little – shall we say – uninhibited in its discussions. Still, the lady should have known the rules, and was right to apologize.
“Dangerous sign of the times” ,that there should be dignity, and Horrors!- modesty of dress in the Knesset? Why not have everyone wear beach wear, so no one takes what happens there seriously? Are we living in a Jewish state or a state that combines the worse of American pop and Eurotrash cultures?
Makes a lot of sense! When you go to a zoo the animals don’t have to wear clothes only the visitors
The same applies to the Knesset 🙄
MK Sheli Yachimovich (Zionist Union) responded to the incident and said: “This is absolutely crazy what transpired just now.
MK Sheli Yachimovich (Zionist Union) responded to the incident and said: “This is absolutely crazy what transpired just now… there is simply no end to the Chutzpah intended by this comment. But what is more telling is that it is a dangerous sign of our times.”
This is a “Jewish State, talk about chutzpah. The secular are scared stiff and it is in fact a sign of the times. Anyone familiar with simple mathematics and knowledge of the population growth rates knows exactly what they are afraid of.’כן יאבדו כל אויבך ה
What a hypocrite. If you have ever spent any time visiting the Knesset or watching an video of debates, you would know that a lot of the male MKs look like they slept in the suits they are wearing and others don’t seem to realize that there are actually dry cleaners in Yerushalayim . The fact that a woman MK inappropriately disparaged another woman MK. Postings like those of Coffee Adict above simply reinforce the point. The dress code says entrance to the Knesset is permitted only in dignified and appropriate attire (no tank/spaghetti tops, crop tops, clothing with political slogans, shorts or ¾ length trousers, ripped trousers, short skirts and dresses, tracksuits or sweatpants or flip-flops. Crocs are permitted but only if a black or blue color. No where, however, does it say anything about wearing jackets (for men or women) and absolutely no mention of wearing properly fitting and pressed clothes that have had a recent encounter with a washing machine or dry cleaner.
How coulda dress code be enforced on one group of people & not another?. Quite absurd.
Coffee addict, you couldn’t have said it better!
BTW, get off coffee so that on Tisha’a B’av you don’t suffer of withdrawal.
In the U.S. Congress, the two biggest issues on dress codes have been the requirement for ties for men and NO hats. The tie issue has been relaxed for the faux “cowboys” from Western states who feel that a string/bolo tie should satisfy the requirement and allow them to “look real” on CSpan for the folks back home. On the hat issue, there is one Black Congreesswoman from Florida who wears outlandish hats as part of her “shtick” and so far has been unsuccessful in getting the rule (which she claims is racist since big brightly colored hats are “part of my culture) changed for the floor of the House. She is allowed to wear her version of Streimlach in Committee hearings.
Coffee addict +1
So what was this shameless hussy wearing that was so immodest? A sleeveless dress? Open toed shoes?
May all Jewish women wear
proper and modest clothes.
A Jewish woman who wears modest and
proper clothes, respect herself.
disgusting, ich pheh, thats all i have to say and i dont know why the other woman standing up to human laws apologized.
I’m not at all surprised.