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Israel's education minister cracks-up during Knesset speech

Israel's education minister cracks-up during Knesset speech

June 4, 2013 09:44

By Zoe Winograd

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Education Minister Shai Piron suffered an uncontrollable laughing fit at the Knesset plenum while trying to deliver a speech explaining the penalties for the "penetration of" cell phones in jails.

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