Arutz Sheva
The 21st Knesset has been dissolved, less than a month after it was sworn in. The Knesset approved the Knesset Dispersion Law on Wednesday evening by a majority of 74 to 45.
The elections for the 22nd Knesset will take place on September 17, just six months after the last elections.
Earlier, the haredi parties Degel Hatorah and Shas announced that their spiritual leaders approved the compromise, which states that the Draft Law will be passed in its first reading and that amendments will be made before it is approved in second and third readings. However, the Yisrael Beytenu rejected this compromise proposal as well.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to the approval of the law to dissolve the 21st Knesset, a month after it was sworn in.
“The Israeli public made a clear and unequivocal decision: That I would be prime minister and that the Likud would lead a right-wing government. The public chose me to lead the State of Israel. The various parties that ran for Knesset, many of them said they would support me. 60 out of the 65 mandates granted to the right did what they undertook upon themselves to do. One party did the exact opposite. Avigdor Liberman misled his voters. From the get go, he had no intention of joining the government,” said Netanyahu.
“In eight months Avigdor Liberman is dragging the country twice to elections because of personal whims and an attempt to get a few more seats. Simply unbelievable. Avigdor Liberman is now part of the left, he is the heart of the left,” Netanyahu continued, blasting the Yisrael Beytenu chairman.
Chai Elul!
Sept 17 election date is 17th of elul not 18th elul
There are a lot of strange things in this story. I saw on the Internet how Avigdor Lieberman visited in monsey the grave of the tzaddik the Ribnitzer Rebbe ztl. It is also a fact that he has worked well with the chareidi party’s in the past. I don’t think he hates religious Jews. It looks like a fight between him and Netanyahu. But what I am surprised why the chareidi parties compromised their values. They agreed to whatever Lieberman stated. Why didn’t the chareidi politicians stand up for Torah values. Next Thursday the immoral yearly parade marches in Jerusalem.… Read more »
The rabbonim did speak up about the horrible parade. They asked the banners not be flown by the municipality and asked that a center for these type people not be funded by the govt. The rabbanim were critisized for speaking up and their request was ignored
Liberman is a Judaism hater! He wants 400.000 non Jewish Russians who came with Jewish Russians and the former children,grandchildren considered Jewish. He is against public observance of Shabbos and Kosher food outlets(the non-Jewish Jewish Russians open PIG butcheries and restaurants). He is an anti Semite. thebe an anti Semite and he and his now 1.2 million non Jewish Russians back to Russia!
Lieberman represents the secular Russians but seemed to work well with the chareidim. Yes the Russians who are not jewish or secular Jews but who is leading the immoral parades. Not the Russians but the ahkenazik Israeli secularists.
can someone explain to me how haredi parties can form coalition withe the secularists? isnt it hishabrus lrasha?
They form a government and get a piece of the pie. Not all the tziyonim are Torah haters. The right wing is more understanding of Torah than the leftys