The Knesset is an organ of the state government that is not Jewish. Rav Elyashiv stated that the Knesset is a bais minus, a place of heresy, and thus all the halachos regarding places of apikorsus applies there as well. The only reason the gedolim permit frum MKs is to reduce the harm to the Bnei Torah tzibbur. But even that, they acknowledge, is a b’dieved that is only done due to lack of alternative.
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