Israel/Palestine

UPDATE :

Report: Opposition leaders to meet for final decision on whether to submit bill to dissolve Knesset

Leaders of opposition parties are set to meet this morning to make a final decision on whether to submit the bill to dissolve the Knesset, the Kan public broadcaster reports.

By law, if the vote fails, parties would have to wait six months before bringing another Knesset dissolution bill to the floor.

According to Kan, Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman is determined that the bill be brought for a vote, even without the support of Shas, which is working hard behind the scenes to postpone the vote and prevent the fall of the government.

The meeting comes as it remains unclear which, if either, of the Haredi parties will ultimately vote for the legislation.

With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline coalition currently holding 68 out of the 120 parliamentary seats, both Shas and United Torah Judaism would need to back the measure.

The two parties have publicly said that they will vote for the measure in its preliminary reading due to the coalition’s failure to pass legislation exempting yeshiva students from military service.

Source : https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-opposition-leaders-to-meet-for-final-decision-on-whether-to-submit-bill-to-dissolve-knesset/

Lots of wheeling and dealing going on behind the scenes .

The biggest threat to Bibi right now is Naftali Bennett .
Likud are doing there best to defame him and keep him out of the next elections .

See : Bennett’s new political party completes registration process

Naftali Bennett’s temporarily named “Bennett 2026” political party has completed the official registration process, allowing the former prime minister to run for the next Knesset without having to pay off the debts of his old Yamina party, Kan reports.

Responding to the report, Social Equality Minister May Golan of Likud accuses Bennett of having stolen the votes of rightwing voters in the last election and says that he is only running for office in order to access taxpayer money in order to pay for “another renovation in the basement of the villa in Ra’anana.”

Bennett’s party is currently polling ahead of Likud, despite having no members announced beyond Bennett himself.

In 2022, then prime minister Bennett’s office rejected a media report that alleged extravagant spending at his Ra’anana home, saying its expenses were far lower than those of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Bennett, who led the now-defunct right-wing Yamina party, has been out of office since the 2022 collapse of his diverse coalition government, which in 2021 ousted Prime Minister Netanyahu from the premiership after 12 consecutive years, following a period of political turmoil that saw four national elections held in three years.

A Channel 12 poll published last week found that the anti-Netanyahu bloc, if led by former prime minister Naftali Bennett and his newly registered party, would win 72 Knesset seats if elections were held today.

Source : https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bennett-s-new-political-party-completes-registration-process/ar-AA1Gj7wz?ocid=BingNewsVerp

As for this "" The National Unity Party, The Democrats, and Yesh Atid probably should run on a joint list of some sort in order to amass the most seats possible. ""............

The National Unity Party is finished , Yair Lapid refused Yair Golan's offer , big mistake .....we are way ahead of Yesh Atid in the polls .

See : Yair Golan urges center-left merger for ousting Netanyahu, but Lapid uninterested

Source : https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/yair-golan-urges-center-left-merger-for-ousting-netanyahu-but-lapid-uninterested/ar-AA1FIyil?ocid=BingNewsVerp