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Get email notification for articles from Shany Littman Follow May. 27, 2021 10:00 PM “This is a festive day for the black goats,” declared MK Jamal Zahalka (Joint List) in a short speech he delivered in the Knesset on May 7, 2018. “At last, equality for goats,” he continued, unable to suppress a smile. “The black goat is ‘kosher,’ and can be bred without restrictions, just like the white goat. The Black Goat Law is revoked.” Zahalka spoke immediately after the final vote on a private bill he himself had submitted. It passed by a landslide: 37 yeas, zero nays, zero abstentions. The black goat had succeeded in corralling support from across the political spectrum; it was a rare example Knesset consensus. ....