Hadash-Ta'al chairman Ayman Odeh was removed from the Knesset plenum after a confrontation with Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf during a debate on a bill addressing the 1956 Kafr Qasim massacre. The proposed legislation sought to have Israel formally acknowledge and commemorate the victims of the massacre, in which Arab citizens were killed by Border Police officers. The bill was rejected in its preliminary reading, with a significant majority voting against it. Similar proposals have been brought forward by Arab Israeli lawmakers in the past, but have consistently failed to pass in the Knesset.