Ministers to Vote On Bill To Silence Mosques in Occupied Jerusalem

The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation is set to vote Sunday on whether the coalition will support a bill banning mosques from using loudspeaker systems for the Muslim call to prayer in the Occupied Jerusalem. 
The bill said that the prayer calls 'have been a frequent target of right-wing ire, with some claiming they are an unnecessarily loud nuisance that echoes in Jewish towns and neighborhoods'. 
The bill, penned by Jewish Home MK Moti Yogev, was set to be voted on by the committee in March but was removed from agenda hours before the scheduled meeting. 
Hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens in the Galilee, Negev, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv-Jaffa and other places in central Israel suffer regularly and daily from the noise caused by the call of the muezzin from mosques," reads the proposed legislation. 
"The noise made by these public calls disturbs the rest of the citizens several times a day, including in the early mornings and at nighttime," it says.

Source: QNA