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18th December 2020
What happened: With the deadline for the budget five days away, it appears Israel is heading for another election.
Last night the Blue and White faction met at the home of Minister Izhar Shay, where party leader Benny Gantz told his colleagues, to take it easy for the moment; the election campaign will be starting soon.
Nevertheless Israeli media also reports that confidants of Gantz and Prime Minister Netanyahu met for intensive talks overnight in an effort to reach a compromise and avert early elections.
According to reports, the Likud is proposing to delay the alternating premiership arrangement and to extend the overall term of the government. This would mean Netanyahu remaining prime minister into spring or summer 2022. In return Blue and White is demanding that Avi Nissenkorn continue to serve as justice minister. This would allow him to appoint the next state attorney, attorney general and at least a
Poll: Likud - 27 seats, Sa ar - 20 - Inside Israel
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Poll: Likud 29, New Hope 19, Yamina 13 - Inside Israel
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Dec. 17, 2020
The Knesset’s legal counsel has clarified that the date for its dissolution, in the event that no state budget is approved for 2020, is midnight on December 23 – namely next Tuesday night. The clarification was published following a wrong interpretation that determined that it would be Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, Kahol Lavan and Likud are trading accusations regarding the bill for dissolving the parliament that was approved in a preliminary vote earlier this month. A second and third reading would lead to the Knesset’s dissolution even earlier. The vote in a first reading of the bill was postponed twice last week.