Ministerial Committee Rejects Bill Setting Kfar Kassem Memorial Day
The Ministerial Committee on Legislation rejected on Sunday, October 24, a bill that would have established a National Day of Mourning to commemorate the victims of the 1956 Kfar Kassem massacre in which 49 Arab citizens of Israel were killed by security forces. Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej (Meretz), a resident of Kfar Kassem, asked to…