WorldJERUSALEM, AFP -A controversial Israeli bill to limit the volume of calls to prayer at mosques may be revived after it appeared to have been buried thanks to opposition from ultra-Orthodox Jews, reports said Thursday. The lawmaker sponsoring the bill, Moti Yogev of the hardline Jewish Home party, says it is meant to target noise at night, which would exclude Jewish rituals. The proposal has outraged Palestinians and Arab Israelis, while government watchdogs call it a threat to religious freedom and an unnecessary provocation. The draft law would also apply to east Jerusalem, occupied and later annexed by Israel and where more than 300,000 Palestinians live. Israeli Jews living in settlements in the east of the city had protested against the volume of prayer calls.

Source: Sunday Times November 17, 2016 12:27 UTC