Israeli MPs 'cheated on IQ test'
>From correspondents in Jerusalem
December 31, 2003
MEMBERS of the Israeli parliament finished in the middle of the pack in a televised IQ test against groups like models and lawyers - and that was after they cheated.
Yesterday's segment of the reality-TV series Test of the Nation had the groups taking the IQ test simultaneously, as viewers joined in from their homes.High school students, tax collectors and lawyers finished first, models and bodybuilders near the bottom and the members of parliament in between.
But today, Haim Katz, a member of parliament from the ruling Likud Party, admitted that his six-person team cheated, sharing answers with each other.
"Like children, we want to succeed, (because) the whole country is watching," he told Army Radio.
Katz likened the behaviour to tests in Israeli schools, where such cheating is endemic.
The image of Israel's parliament has suffered in recent years because of scandals, investigations and questionable election practices, added to the decades-long practice of conducting shouting matches, complete with curses and epithets, during floor debates.
The present group, elected this year, has scaled new heights, with several members facing police inquiries for voting twice on a budget bill, another for bribery during a primary campaign, and prime minister and his son - also a member of parliament - under investigation for election irregularities.
Members of parliament who did not take part in the TV show scoffed at the affair.
"These days it appears that you have to add the IQs of all the members of parliament together to get a good result," quipped Ronni Bar-On of Likud.
AP
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