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Yisrael Beiteinu to advance bill on loyalty oath
By Tomer Zarchin, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel News, Loyalty Oath 

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party is set to advance its controversial bill requiring citizens to swear loyalty to the state.

The bill, proposed by MK David Rotem, will be brought to a Knesset ministerial committee on Sunday .

Rotem is the chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.
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According to the legislation, a person requesting citizenship will be "required to make a declaration in which they commit to being loyal to the State of Israel as a Jewish, Zionist and democratic state, to its symbols and values and to serve the state as much as required through military or alternative service."

The expected proposal follows another controversial bill put forward on Wednesday by Yisrael Beiteinu lawmakers that would make it a crime to publicly deny Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, punishable by a sentence of up to a year in prison.

That bill received initial approval from the Knesset plenum.

Both proposals were key parts of Yisrael Beiteinu's campaign in February's general election, in which it grew to Israel's third largest political party.

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