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conflict between the estranged husband and wife. With the post, Glick attached a video showing Azaria and the other MKs not letting him speak from the
Knesset plenum and criticized Azaria for not attempting to privately ask him for an explanation before publicly attacking him. The next day, Glick posted a picture with him and Azaria together noting that he had accepted her initiative to bury the hatchet.
339:. Hassan-Nahoum said she was surprised when Azaria decided to run, and noted that she had a "real issue" with Azaria's candidacy splitting the city's pluralistic vote. In response, Azaria called it "unfortunate" that Hassan-Nahoum chose to leave the party after their decision and wished her good luck.
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Knesset grounds. It was not immediately clear why Glick โ who had previously spoken in favor of prenuptial agreements to avoid the problems associated with gett refusal โ had invited the get refuser. Approximately a week later, Glick posted to his Facebook page explaining that he was mediating the
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When a company responsible for placing ads on
Jerusalem buses refused to run a campaign poster with her picture on it because ultra-Orthodox Jews object to posting women's pictures in public places, Azaria petitioned the court to force the buses to carry her ads. She has been engaged in the campaign
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Jerusalem as head of the Yerushalmim faction on the Jerusalem city council. As of January 2015, she holds the education portfolio and women's rights portfolio. As leader of the Yerushalmim party, Azaria has promoted "Community Kashrut,"
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December 2015, the Knesset approved a preliminary reading of legislation Azaria sponsored to enable fathers to take more time off from work to care for their infants. The proposed changes to the Women's Labor Law and the National Insurance Law passed with a vote of 49 in favor and none against.
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stripped her of her portfolios to punish her for petitioning Israel's High Court of
Justice to enforce an earlier ruling requiring police to prevent illegal gender segregation on the streets of Mea Shearim, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem.
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an effort to make kosher certification on food items a matter of trust between food establishments and their customers. Yerushalmim expects the project to open the kosher market to greater competition and to dislodge the monopoly the
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Israelis can hold dual citizenship, a Basic Law passed in 1958 says that Knesset members cannot pledge allegiance as parliamentarians unless they give up foreign citizenship. Azaria
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At Azaria's initiative, Israel's mandatory minimum paid vacation law was updated for the first time since 1951, increasing the minimum legal paid vacation entitlement from 10 to 12 days.
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teacher, and has four children, and lives in
Jerusalem. She held US citizenship prior to her entering the Knesset, when she had to give it up as a condition of becoming an MK.
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officially passed a law dispersing itself in late
December 2018. Following this announcement, Azaria announced in early January 2019 that she would be leaving the
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