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Chairman Reuven Grunau of the public committee for determing privileges for Members of Knesset adopted on Sunday Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin's recommendation to assign a driver to help MK Moshe Matlon (who represents Yisrael Beiteinu) function despite disabilities suffered during military service which confine him to a wheelchair.
The decision represents a victory for Rivlin over Knesset legal advisor Nurit Elstein, who disagreed with Rivlin, issuing an opinion that the move an illegal political privilege. Matlon (pictured) praised Rivlin and Knesset General Manager Dan Landau for their fortitude and called the decision a light for all those who have taken on the cause of providing accessibility for the disabled.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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