A powerful Knesset committee will convene on Wednesday afternoon to vote on whether to strip Joint (Arab) List MK Basel Ghattas of his parliamentary immunity, after he came under suspicion of passing contraband to Palestinian inmates in Israeli prison.
Ghattas was questioned by the national serious crimes unit of the Israel Police on Tuesday over allegations he handed miniature cellphones and secret notes to two imprisoned Palestinians, one of whom is serving a 37-year sentence for murder, during a visit at Ketziot Prison south of Beersheba on Sunday.