Politics and Knesset
The agreement with United Torah Judaism resolves a dispute last week that threatened the coalition’s formation.
Religious Zionism Party head Bezalel Smotrich and Shas leader Aryeh Deri insisted the law pass before the new government was sworn in.
The Gush Emumin movement to revive Jewish life in Judea and Samaria was founded in his living room in 1974.
The deadline to establish a coalition expired at midnight on Wednesday night.
The “Caroline Glick Show,” with Caroline Glick and guests Alan Dershowitz and Avi Bell.
The new law eliminates the current option for four MKs to break away from their parliamentary group, marking progress for Benjamin Netanyahu in his quest to form a government.
Uri Zaki raised 734,000 shekels in 2017-2022 for his nonprofit from the New Israel Fund, a U.S.-based NGO that supports progressive groups in Israel.
“I’m not sure that I can represent the new government,” said Ambassador Yael German.
The law would affect only one party according to the current electoral situation—outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid.
“This will not become a nation of religious law. It will be a country in which we tend to all citizens of Israel, without exception,” says Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu.
Prior to the vote, outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid attacked the incoming government, claiming it threatened Israeli democracy.
Shas chairman Aryeh Deri will receive the interior and health ministry portfolios for two years, after which he will switch to become Finance Minister.
