Ben-Gvir cracks down on mosque loudspeakers

Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir is instructing the police leadership to enforce the confiscation of loudspeakers in mosques and to increase fines in mixed cities and Arab towns, due to complaints about noise.

"I am proud to lead, together with my colleague Minister Silman, a policy to stop unreasonable noises from mosques, which have become a hazard for the residents of Israel. In most Western countries, and even in Arab countries, noise is restricted – only in Israel there is lawlessness. Prayer is a basic right, but it cannot come at the expense of the quality of life of the residents," Ben-Gvir wrote.

Ra'am Chairman MK Mansour Abbas responded, "I appeal to the sane people in the Israeli government and the State of Israel to restrain the religious warmonger Ben Gvir, who is trying in every way to ignite the flames and drag the Arab Muslim citizens into response to his provocations.

He failed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and today he is trying to provoke all the mosques inside the mixed cities. Ben-Gvir is constantly trying to sabotage coexistence in the country, and the time has come to put an end to it."

* Arutz 7 contributed to this article.