Draft bill wants to limit the volume of calls to prayer from mosques in Israel

The Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says he will support the new proposal

It will see mosques banned from using public address systems for calls

But religious watchdogs in Israel have said plan is 'unnecessarily divisive'

It is believed that the bill would stop the use of public address systems from mosques to issue the calls to prayer.
But while the draft bill applies to all houses of worship, it is seen as specifically targeting mosques.

And Mr Netanyahu said: 'I cannot count the times - they are simply too numerous - that citizens have turned to me from all parts of Israeli society, from all religions, with complaints about the noise and suffering caused by the excessive noise coming from the public address systems of houses of prayer.'

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Islam has been using the sound speakers in Mosques since the 1930s, and now claims they are an intangible part of their culture and religion.