No use of loudspeakers for Muezzin calls at all until a Synagogue is built in Mecca.

The proposal is to turn down the volume on some of them that are extra extra loud, not to stop them. Saudi Arabia and Egypt have restrictions on the volume of their muezzin calls, why is it racist if Israel does it? If you live here in Israel, you know that certain mosques crank up the volume when they want to be irritating like on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. Sometimes calls to war come over the loudspeakers not calls to prayer.

surely you jest...you are comparing a shofar blown twice a year in a synagogue to a loud muezzin's call over a loud public address system 5 times a day?? Or the song to announce shabbat once a week? Breslav vans don't put out music in the middle of the night or 4am... what planet do you live on?

I was actually woken up every single morning by the call of Muezzin - and I loved it. It is an integral part of this country and no-one has the right to stop it. If they do, they are asking for a whole lot of trouble. Live and let live and learn some tolerance instead of trying to mask over it.

It is about time that some one has the balls to actually make a law against the Arab misuse of religion. Their call to prayer is so loud that it disturbs neighboring Jewish villages - and the Arabs love it that it bothers us. Kol HaKavod to Anastassia Michaeli and Yisrael Beiteinu for not being afraid of the Arab bullies!!

blaring my prayers in their face at 330 am and 4 other times a day. They did fine for 1400 years without a PA system that disturbs everyones sleep. 3 cheers for this one.

Try living 3 yards from a minaret with rock stadium speakers blaring the calls to prayer for 5-15 minutes at 3-5am in the morning. Dude you have NO idea, so save your suggestions for others who have to put up with it. Freedom of religion, but it doesn't mean I scream my prayers in your ear. theres a difference, you know it.

How u could arrive at such a stupid conclusion where it's not okay in Europe but in the ME it is, is beyond reason. The ME hasn't been "Muslim" for longer than it hasn't: quite the opposite. And additionally: Muslims DON'T own the middle east, there are alot of other religions there. Typical European mentality: doing whatever suits u but telling others it's not okay. How idiotic and arrogant. It's no wonder Europe fell. (and yeah, u guys fell: Europe is a pathetically backward place)

Why do Muslims need to be 'called to prayer? After all this time, don't they know the way to the mosque, don't they know the hour when they have to pray. We are talking about people who 'live Islam 24/7. To be 'called to pray is an affront to their braincells. The noice they produce is an affront to our ears.

that ring to tell of moslim prayer times. There are wrist watches that have alarms for the prayer times as wel as pointing to mecca. They just raise the volumn to annoy Jews and xtians.

I , formerly moslem , have been boisterously complaining about the loud,disturbing noise of the muezzin because it most often woke me up from my deep sleep in the early mornings. I even dared write an on-line critical article about it some 4 years ago . I simply find it impossible to believe that the very Islam which calls for religious tolerance allows its followers to impose itself, by mosque loudspeakers,on everybody, moslems & non moslems,devout & seculars,religious & atheists, by force. Evidently Islam is indeed a selfish,self-righteous faith that does not show any concern for others ...!

who want to ban it or enforce a low volume level.

for those loyal to israel, and who do your duty-fine. the rest of them, in order that you will have a good future for you and your family, start packing and move to jordan. elements of israel public do not want disloyal arabs among them. jews were here before you came as foreigners-Tibi has it totally wrong. leave before the jews take vengeance on you and you know they owe you big time. leave before it is too late. Cross the jordan and save your skins. allah akbar!

If" the freedom of religion shouldn't compromise quality of life" we should also have public transportation on shabbat

It is enervating that horrible sound. We are not obliged to hear and be soaked with that thing. If they like ,they can move to where their fellows also like;if they don't move,they shall use the alarm clock to remind them about whatever they want to be reminded.

it's the volume that's annoying. i live there..not in germany...and can tell you that noone is upset that the call exists, but that it's frequent, poorly-synchronized (the call comes from all corners of jaffa), in different keys simultaneously, and REALLY loud. read: totally obnoxious. actually, you would be surprised at how tolerant everyone is here. its not a question of religious freedom or tolerance, but of respecting your neighbors while you worship in your special way. don't cry "racist" when the issue is a totally different one.

everybody is off track here. These are state employed clerics Why hasn't anyone acknowledged this fact and its implications?

"The proposal aims to prohibit mosques from sounding the nighttime and early morning calls of the Muezzin – who uses a public address system to beckon worshipers to pray – in order to avoid disrupting nearby residents. As per the initiative, the interior minister will be able to determine which mosques could sound the call and when." There is no state control of Judaism but it's OK for ELI YISHAI to control Muslim prayers? The same ELI YISHAI who wants a law to ban family reunification which "significantly limits the ability of a citizen to live together with a Palestinian spouse. The order's practical meaning is the prevention of unification of hundreds of families, particularly Bedouin ones in the Negev."

Those very same Minarets that the call to prayer is made from, is usually the hight vantage point tha Arabt snipers use to target their Jewish victims

Post your phone number, I would like to ring you up while you're relaxing or sleeping, you can look forward to my calling five times a day, each and every day\ Don’t forget to include the times you eat your meals I am certain that any children you have at home would enjoy have their rest of sleep disturbed

If you claim people should not move near mosques knowing the loud call to prayer, then by the same token mosques should not be built near any residential areas, nor on land zoned for future residential growth. Seems, however, that you would find that racist despite it following the very logic you put forth. It is interesting that both Egypt and Saudi Arabia monitor the calls to prayer but somehow Israel must accept a free-for-all.

and your post makes the assumption that the entire Middle East is Arab Muslim. Wrong! But besides that, don't you find it interesting that Egypt and Saudi Arabia, both Arab Muslim countries, limit the call to prayer? That's all Israel is asking for, not a complete prohibition.

I don't recall that they do. Maybe in Christian Europe. Can you enlighten us?

Muslims love to cause others problems, even other Muslims. In this instance instead of using traditional means to call their faithful to prayers they invest in amplifiers to make as much annoying disturbing offensive noise as possible when decent people are asleep. Now Christians have a different mindset, to do to others as you would like them to do to you, so they do not invest in electronics to amplify noise of their bells nor do they ring them at times that torture others.

Besides, shouldn't they know after 1,200 years when it's time to pray ?