Circus Knesset opening today

The annual meeting of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus Israeli Knessset will begin this afternoon, with speeches by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik and opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu. The one act we will be spared is twenty or more MK's protesting the presence of President Moshe Katzav. Katzav has decided to absent himself from the Knesset session.