Education Minister Piron stands to discuss ‘penetration of prohibited objects into prisons’
during a late night Knesset session,
but instead of talking, he can’t not stop laughing.
Reuters
A reference to “penetration” in a speech to parliament caused Education Minister to burst into a laughing fit that went viral on Tuesday on Israeli websites.
Education Minister Piron – Photo Courtesy of Knesset Channel
Shai Piron, who is also a rabbi, could not get past the first sentence of his address, on a proposed law against smuggling cell phones into Israel’s prisons, before beginning to chuckle.
“Mr. Chairman, distinguished Parliament, the aim of this legislation is to deal with a serious phenomenon – the penetration of prohibited objects into prisons,” he said during a late night session on Monday broadcast on the official Knesset TV channel. Continue Reading »
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