Israel’s education minister gets the giggles in parliament

JERUSALEM, June 5: A reference to “penetration” in a speech to parliament caused Israel’s education minister to burst into a laughing fit that went viral yesterday on Israeli websites. Shai Piron, who is also a rabbi, could not get past the first sentence of his address, on a proposed law against smuggling cell phones into Israel’s prisons, before beginning to chuckle.  (agencies)