(Ynet News) Andrew Friedman - The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved a bill Sunday to ban mosque muezzins from announcing prayer times via amplified loudspeakers. MK Motti Yogev said the early-morning calls to prayer from mosques disturb the sleep of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Arabs alike. "We are not opposed to religious observance, and certainly not to the call of the muezzin that 'God is great'," said Yogev. "(Religious Jews have been) reciting a similar phrase for thousands of years....But with all the technological advances of today, there is no justification for waking people up at 4 o'clock in the morning who don't want (to attend prayer services). There are cell phone applications, alarm clocks, and other technologies to use. There is no need to wake up the whole neighborhood."
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