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"Humiliation": Security guards prevented an Knesset adviser from entering because of a "too short" dress - Walla! news

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An adviser to Minister Zandberg described how Knesset Guard employees stopped her from entering the Mishkan, and lamented her humiliating treatment: "I was shocked. I arrived at the Knesset in a proper and respectful dress and stayed outside not because of stateliness, but because of modesty." Knesset: "Arrived in clothing that does not comply with the dress code that obliges everyone"


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"Humiliation": Security guards prevented a Knesset adviser from entering because of a "too short" dress

An adviser to Minister Zandberg described how Knesset Guard employees stopped her from entering the Mishkan, and lamented her humiliating treatment: "I was shocked. I arrived at the Knesset in a proper and respectful dress and stayed outside not because of stateliness, but because of modesty."

Knesset: "Arrived in clothing that does not comply with the dress code that obliges everyone"

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Yaki Adamkar

Monday, 15 November 2021, 19:14 Updated: 19:16

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Lev Yam Gonen, an adviser to the Minister of Environmental Protection, Tamar Zandberg, protested today (Monday) in a post she posted on Facebook that Knesset guard employees prevented her from entering the Mishkan because the dress she was wearing was not supposedly long enough.

"The Knesset of Israel should be ashamed," she wrote, accusing that "the dress code has become a tool for the humiliation of women."



In a letter that Gonen plans to send to Knesset Director General Gil Segal, which she is expected to sign with a number of parliamentary advisers, she writes, among other things, that it is important for the Knesset to "cut off the connection between appropriate clothing and modest wear, and put an end to measuring skirts and dresses." Of women in every institution and in every workplace. "



She told of the incident that took place in the afternoon.

"I arrived this morning at my job at the Ministry of Environmental Protection with a dress I really like, a dress that even has an inner lining like the most expensive," she wrote in the post. And he took the entry permit from me. I told him I was late for the meeting and asked if there was a problem. He said I would wait and 'she' would come and explain to me. "There was a protest by parliamentary advisers about the length of the skirt, but I did not believe that a woman would stay out of the Knesset because of the length of her dress. I was shocked."

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"I told her I did not believe that they were not admitted to the Knesset because of a dress and I continued my way inside my workplace, to the Knesset. "Mostly I'm really, really ashamed," she added.



According to her, ministers and Knesset members who went out and tried to help her were also denied the name of the dress code.

"What is too short, you ask?" She wrote, "an excellent question that only the person in charge of the dress code in the Knesset can answer."

She testified that she had walked the same dress to the Knesset dozens of times in the past.

The Knesset (Photo: Official website, Knesset website)

"Women go through things so hard every day, and who am I to cry about how hard it is to describe in words the humiliation. The feeling of five, six, seven uniformed men in front of me measuring the length of the dress, and then when I am humiliated and upset I am also accused of being hysterical. "Shouting and quarreling because I did not get their modesty guard in 'done and heard'," Gonen added.



"I searched in depth why I felt so humiliated, I asked myself if it did not make sense to have a dress code for the Knesset and come and the island of the Mishkan to appear in it in respectful attire. , She concluded, "So it's not. To treat along the skirt and the depth of the neckline to determine appropriate / inappropriate is a remnant of a patriarchal world that treats women as a body, as an object, as sexuality. I felt so humiliated that I came to the Knesset Modesty. A dress code has become a tool for the humiliation of women and deepens the inequality and damage to our dignity, and it is time to remove the length of the skirt and the depth of the neckline from the dress code, and use it to create a workplace that women are respectfully dressed with. ".



The Knesset stated in response that "in the Knesset, as in all parliaments around the world, there is a standard dress code that requires all its critics. The dress code has been enforced for many years and from time to time work is done to refresh the guidelines. "Among the parliamentary advisers, members of the Knesset and Knesset staff who determined the appropriate dress code in the Knesset and how it is enforced.

Five years to the skirt protest

About five years ago, the parliamentary advisers opened what became known as the "skirt protest," after two councilors were prevented from entering on the grounds that their dresses were too short.

The two, the then parliamentary adviser to MK Merav Michaeli and Moriah Silfen, who served as the parliamentary adviser to MK Eli Al-Aluf, arrived separately during that week at the Knesset, and their entry was denied for a long time.



Following the protest, in 2017 the Knesset administration distributed a new dress code to the visitors of the Mishkan, "with the aim of reaching an agreed solution regarding the proper dress code in the Knesset and how it is enforced."

The code prohibits access to the Mishkan in clothing "that does not respect the Knesset, including T-shirts, T-shirts, shorts, skirts and short dresses, tracksuits (sweatshirts), flip-flops and so on. Also, do not arrive in clothing with political captions."

Those who do not arrive dressed in accordance with the code, will receive a written warning and will be able to enter, but after two warnings, entry will not be allowed according to the code.

In the event that a Knesset employee arrives dressed in violation of procedures, his case will be handled in accordance with the provisions applicable to Knesset employees.

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