Israel proposes to make it a crime to compare people to Nazis The draft legislation would impose penalties of up to six months in jail and a $25,000 (£16,000) fine for using the word "Nazi" or Holocaust symbols for purposes other than teaching, documentation or research. The draft legislation passed its first hurdle Monday when Israeli Cabinet ministers approved it. It now goes to the full parliament for a vote. The bill was proposed after ultra-Orthodox demonstrators set off a furore by dressing young boys as Nazi concentration camp inmates during a protest against what they said was incitement against their community. Protesters have also called police "Nazis." The bill has been criticised by civil rights groups that see it as infringing on freedom of expression. Six million Jews were killed by the Nazis during the Second World War. About 200,000 survivors of the Holocaust live in Israel.