WATCH: First-ever deaf Knesset Member swears in using sign language

MK Shirley Pinto was sworn in on June 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Disability-rights activist Shirley Pinto from the Yemina party became Israel’s first deaf member of the Knesset on Wednesday.

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