RELATED:Barak, Peres call for peace talks at Rabin memorialVote postponed on Judicial Selection C'tee billPlus, with memorial ceremonies for prime minister Yitzhak Rabin taking place throughout the day, committee meetings were especially muted.Whines could be heard from the journalists’ wing that there just wasn’t anything interesting to write, until a surprise visitor showed up.An unauthorized infiltrator snuck onto the plenum floor on Wednesday afternoon, but it wasn’t a criminal, or even a sneaky reporter – it was a cat.As MK Yoel Hasson (Kadima) gave a speech about “the demand to directly employ contract workers,” the cat strolled in, and Hasson joked: “Maybe the cat is one of the contract workers.”Deputy Knesset Speaker Orly Levy- Abecassis (Israel Beiteinu), who was presiding over the plenum meeting, said that she has 10 kittens at home, and wouldn’t mind adopting another.Hasson responded that perhaps the cat should stay in the Knesset, to prevent a mouse problem.Soon after, Knesset workers escorted the unexpected guest out of the plenum.Kadima spokesman Shmulik Dahan and Arik Ben-Shimon, spokesman for MK Uri Ariel (National Union), sent text messages to reporters: “A cat was just spotted in the plenum!” “I’d rather have a cat in the plenum than in the cafeteria,” Ariel, who saw the incident, joked. After all, two months ago, a dead cat was found in a pot in the Knesset cafeteria.A cat sneaking into the plenum was one of those times when reality was more amusing than anything anyone could make up – although Sarit Gomez, the new spokeswoman for MK Carmel Shama-Hacohen (Likud), knows a bit about that.Gomez, who officially replaced former spokeswoman Livnat Nizri on Wednesday, has been the subject of a lot of whispers in the Knesset corridors, because of her past as a reality TV star.
The day felines and reality TV stars took over the Knesset
Reporter's Notebook: When no controversial bills are brought to vote, frivolous issues, like a cat sneaking into the plenum, get the attention.
RELATED:Barak, Peres call for peace talks at Rabin memorialVote postponed on Judicial Selection C'tee billPlus, with memorial ceremonies for prime minister Yitzhak Rabin taking place throughout the day, committee meetings were especially muted.Whines could be heard from the journalists’ wing that there just wasn’t anything interesting to write, until a surprise visitor showed up.An unauthorized infiltrator snuck onto the plenum floor on Wednesday afternoon, but it wasn’t a criminal, or even a sneaky reporter – it was a cat.As MK Yoel Hasson (Kadima) gave a speech about “the demand to directly employ contract workers,” the cat strolled in, and Hasson joked: “Maybe the cat is one of the contract workers.”Deputy Knesset Speaker Orly Levy- Abecassis (Israel Beiteinu), who was presiding over the plenum meeting, said that she has 10 kittens at home, and wouldn’t mind adopting another.Hasson responded that perhaps the cat should stay in the Knesset, to prevent a mouse problem.Soon after, Knesset workers escorted the unexpected guest out of the plenum.Kadima spokesman Shmulik Dahan and Arik Ben-Shimon, spokesman for MK Uri Ariel (National Union), sent text messages to reporters: “A cat was just spotted in the plenum!” “I’d rather have a cat in the plenum than in the cafeteria,” Ariel, who saw the incident, joked. After all, two months ago, a dead cat was found in a pot in the Knesset cafeteria.A cat sneaking into the plenum was one of those times when reality was more amusing than anything anyone could make up – although Sarit Gomez, the new spokeswoman for MK Carmel Shama-Hacohen (Likud), knows a bit about that.Gomez, who officially replaced former spokeswoman Livnat Nizri on Wednesday, has been the subject of a lot of whispers in the Knesset corridors, because of her past as a reality TV star.