MK Sharan Haskel of the State Camp was removed from the Knesset plenary podium on Tuesday and refrained from speaking at the debate on the bill she initiated only because she took the stand holding her baby daughter. The Knesset's legal counsel clarified that this is contrary to the regulations.
An unusual event: Sharan Haskel took the Knesset podium with her infant daughter - the legal counsel asked her to come down | Knesset Channel
MK Haskel said in response after the incident: "It is sad that the Speaker of the Knesset, who has two children at home, chooses to prevent a woman from going to the plenary podium and presenting the bill like any other Knesset member when she is with her children. I bring my daughter to work not for provocations or likes, but because I'm a mother and I want to combine my motherhood and career, like every mother in the State of Israel."
"From day one, this is something I insist on walking with proudly and shamelessly, not to hide or be ashamed of my mothers, but to prove to women everywhere that it is possible and necessary to normalize motherhood everywhere, including in the Knesset," she added, clarifying that "in fact, there is no regulation in the regulations that prevents a woman from speaking in the plenary session with a baby, this is at the sole discretion of the Speaker of the Knesset, who made a sad decision today. And the truth is humiliating and terrible to me as a mother. What they understood in other parliaments will probably take a long time in Israel."
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