(MENAFN) An Israeli bill to mute the Muslim call to prayer is to go forward after it was amended so as not to affect the Jewish Shabbat siren, the speaker's office said on Wednesday.
In detail, Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, had blocked the draft law in its original form for fear it would also force the toning down of the sirens that announce the start of the Jewish day of rest at sundown each Friday.
But he lifted his objections after it was amended to apply only between 11pm and 7am, limiting its scope to the first of the five daily Muslim calls to prayer just before dawn.
The bill will "probably" now be put to a preliminary vote in parliament "next week", a spokesman for speaker Yuli Edelstein told AFP.
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