{"id":213507,"date":"2025-12-31T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/213507\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:50:07","slug":"watch-mk-concludes-address-in-sign-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/213507\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: MK concludes address in sign language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u05d4\u05de\u05d7\u05d5\u05d5\u05d4 \u05e9\u05dc \u05d7&#8221;\u05db \u05d7\u05d9\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d8\u05e8\u05d5\u05e4\u05e8 &#8211; \u05d1\u05e9\u05e4\u05ea \u05d4\u05e1\u05d9\u05de\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd\u05e2\u05e8\u05d5\u05e5 \u05d4\u05db\u05e0\u05e1\u05ea<\/p>\n<p data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The Knesset on Wednesday approved in a preliminary reading a bill to officially recognize Israeli Sign Language. The bill will make Israel the 83rd country to recognize their local sign language. <\/p>\n<p data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The bill, led by MK Chili Tropper, aims to change the perception of deafness from a personal disability or trauma to being recognized as part of human diversity in the State of Israel.<\/p>\n<p data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">According to the bill, sign language can develop and diversify its vocabulary in various fields, including research and medicine, while at the same time preserving the language as a national cultural asset. <\/p>\n<p data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">In his address to the Knesset, Tropper noted: &#8220;The ability of a person to determine their lifestyle and not work according to their biological dictates is an expression of profound human perception. Sign language is a visual language and not a spoken one, but it is a language in all respects. The bill that we advanced today is an important step in the recognition journey for the deaf community in Israel and for sign language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">At the conclusion of his address, MK Tropper signed the words, &#8220;In our society, there is equal room for everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u05d4\u05de\u05d7\u05d5\u05d5\u05d4 \u05e9\u05dc \u05d7&#8221;\u05db \u05d7\u05d9\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d8\u05e8\u05d5\u05e4\u05e8 &#8211; \u05d1\u05e9\u05e4\u05ea \u05d4\u05e1\u05d9\u05de\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd\u05e2\u05e8\u05d5\u05e5 \u05d4\u05db\u05e0\u05e1\u05ea The Knesset on Wednesday approved in a preliminary reading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[118759,118760,85,46,4212,43,102858],"class_list":{"0":"post-213507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-chili-tropper","9":"tag-deaf-community","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-language","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sign-language"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}