Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir (Yisrael Beytenu) and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch (Yisrael Beytenu) announced on Sunday that they would remove their appeal against a bill prohibiting the trade of foie gras, on the condition that the bill only prohibit the trade -– and not the personal import – of the disputed product. By prohibiting the trade instead of the import, the country could avoid violating international trade agreements and thereby bringing economic harm to itself, the ministers said.
(photo credit: The Jerusalem Post)