MK Pinto calls MK Chikli ‘virus’, Knesset speaker to address incident

Knesset President Mickey Levy on Monday called on the opposition to enable the formation of an ethics committee to deal with the recent problematic events.

In the interim, he invited Yamina MK Shirley Pinto to his office to talk about why he called his former colleague in the faction MK Amichai Chikli a “virus” in a TV interview on Sunday.

Pinto told 103 radio on Monday that he meant a virus in a computer, not a virus that harms people’s health. Chikli made fun of his statement on Twitter.

Likud MK David Amslem appealed to the Supreme Court on Monday against Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit, complaining that he had not opened an investigation against Yamina MK Abir Kara, who illegally voted twice on a bill in July.