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The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court today (Wednesday) began hearing a defamation lawsuit filed by Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai against Transportation Minister Miri Regev in 2020, after Regev claimed during the election campaign that year that he was preventing the placing of tefillin throughout the city.
During the hearing, Regev, who entered through a side entrance and was accompanied by her security guards, answered questions from Huldai's attorney, attorney Tal Shapira.
In a lawsuit filed through attorneys Tal Shapira and Mirav Bar-Zik, Huldai demands compensation in the amount of half a million shekels for false publications that were distributed by various means, according to him.
Shapira opened the discussion and demanded that Regev admit that "there was no prohibition against a private person placing a tefillin anywhere in the city of Tel Aviv."
Regev objected to the assumption: "I think it was clear to everyone and Adam explained that everyone was shocked by the publication this.
I joined a public discourse that was shocked by the decision and publication.
Rabbis, mayors, secular, traditional, were shocked by the instruction to remove the stalls.
It's not for nothing that mayors wrote against Ron Huldai about the decision.
There was a big campaign of the social network 0404, to put on tefillin called "Operation Ron".
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