WATCH: Israeli lawmaker removed for meowing during PM’s speech

In a comic reference to a provision in Israel’s new state budget allocating $3.8 million to neuter stray cats, opposition Knesset member Moshe Abutbul began meowing during Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s address to the plenum.

ח”כ משה אבוטבול יושב במליאה בזמן נאום ראש הממשלה ומיילל כחתול: “מיאו” pic.twitter.com/3WeZnBH1Us

— Yanir Cozin – יניר קוזין (@yanircozin) November 3, 2021

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