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Follow Dec. 22, 2020 The Knesset parking garage became the scene of major political drama Monday that is leading the country into its fourth round of election in two years. The garage has in the past served as a regular hiding place for Knesset members seeking to emerge at the last minute to vote – in the process disrupting legislative battle plans. Nevertheless, when Knesset members Ram Shefa (Kahol Lavan) and Michal Shir Segman (Likud) suddenly emerged in the Knesset chamber to vote on Monday night, they managed to surprise a lot of people. Bibi gets immunity – just not the kind he real...

Israeli cannabis farm outside Tsfat (archive). Proponents of cannabis legalization in the Knesset, especially those who championed legislation to regulate a legal cannabis market in Israel, were behind the dissolution of Israel’s government on Monday night, and therefore also behind the collapse of the legislative process for legalization in Israel Cannabis Magazine reported Tuesday morning ( The magazine points out that the dissolution of the government before the bill for legalization was approved in at least a first reading prevents the bill from being preserved by the continuity procedu...

Raoul Wootliff is the The Times of Israel's political correspondent. Knesset members shout at each other after a bill that might have staved off elections is defeated, December 21, 2020 (Knesset channel screenshot) The Knesset overnight Monday-Tuesday narrowly rejected a bill that would have deferred a Tuesday midnight deadline for passing the 2020 state budget, and thus set Israel on an almost certain course to its fourth general election in two years. Barring a highly improbable rapprochement between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Defense Minister Benny Gantz, enabling...

MKs nix bill extending budget timeline, making elections almost inevitable Knesset likely to dissolve Tuesday night as legislation to buy another two weeks for budget talks is rejected with 49 MKs opposed and 47 in favor; Likud and Blue & White both face rebellion from within as each sees lawmakers vote no Moran Azulay, Reuters | Published: 12.22.20 , 08:28 A last-ditch effort to prevent the Knesset from dissolving automatically - and sending Israel into its fourth election in two years - failed in the early hours of Tuesday when lawmakers rejected a bill that would extend the timeline all...

Israel embarks on fourth election in two years as budget row topples Knesset Parliament dissolves as deadline to approve budget expires with coalition failing to legislate extension; Netanyahu to remain as PM until vote expected to take place on March 23; Likud set to remain biggest party despite strong challenge from its ex-MK Gideon Sa'ar Ynet | Published: 12.23.20 , 00:06 Israel headed into its fourth election campaign in two years at the stroke of midnight Tuesday, as the deadline for passing a state budget expired and the Knesset automatically dissolved by law. Elections are expec...