{"id":112518,"date":"2026-05-13T21:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/112518\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:07:20","slug":"coalition-submits-bill-to-dissolve-knesset-vote-expected-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/112518\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition submits bill to dissolve Knesset, vote expected next week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coalition whip Ofir Katz<\/a> submitted a bill to dissolve the Knesset with the full backing of coalition faction leaders, he announced late on Wednesday, following the crisis in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition over the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft bill.<\/p>\n

The passage of the bill could move up the election date, which is currently scheduled for October 27.<\/p>\n

The bill stipulates that the election date would be held no earlier than three months after the legislation passes and would be determined in the Knesset House Committee.<\/p>\n

Elections must take place no later than five months after the bill is approved.<\/p>\n

\"OppositionOpposition lawmakers seen at the Knesset, October 27, 2025 (credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM\/THE JERUSALEM POST)Bennett calls for Knesset to dissolve<\/p>\n

The bill is expected to be brought for a preliminary reading next week. It was co-sponsored by lawmakers from Netanyahu\u2019s coalition, which included MK Uri Maklev (United Torah Judaism), Yinon Azoulay (Shas), Michel Buskila (New Hope-United Right), Ohad Tal (Religious Zionist Party), and Zvika Fogel (Otzma Yehudit).<\/p>\n

The haredi faction, Degel Hatorah, had called to dissolve the Knesset over disagreements on the draft bill on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The opposition subsequently brought forward bills to dissolve the Knesset in an attempt to trigger early elections with the haredi parties\u2019 support.<\/p>\n

The coalition’s bill to dissolve the Knesset has been seen as a way for Netanyahu to control the pace of the process and the date of the elections. With both the coalition and opposition supporting it, it is expected to pass in its preliminary reading.<\/p>\n

The opposition\u2019s bill to dissolve the Knesset was expected to be brought for a vote in its preliminary reading next week on Wednesday, opposition coordinator MK Merav Ben-Ari\u2019s (Yesh Atid<\/a>) office told The Jerusalem Post earlier on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The tensions come as the Knesset opened its summer session on Sunday, following its recess, in its final summer term before elections.<\/p>\n

There were reports last week that the haredi parties were seeking to move the election date up to September, ahead of the Jewish high holidays, and that Netanyahu opposed the change, aiming instead for the elections to remain in October.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Dov Lando, the spiritual leader of Degel Hatorah, which is a faction in United Torah Judaism, had written in a letter on Tuesday to its Knesset members that \u201cWe no longer have trust in Netanyahu.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSteps must be taken to dissolve the Knesset as soon as possible. All kinds of talk about a \u2018bloc\u2019 no longer exist,\u201d the letter added.<\/p>\n

Lando\u2019s letter came after it was reported that Netanyahu informed United Torah Judaism party representatives that there is no coalition majority to pass the controversial haredi conscription bill.<\/p>\n

The haredi draft bill advanced in the Knesset\u2019s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee (FADC) is highly controversial. Critics argue that the legislation is primarily intended to appease the haredi parties in Netanyahu\u2019s coalition and would not increase enlistment.<\/p>\n

Several coalition lawmakers have stated that they oppose the bill\u2019s current outline for that reason and will vote against it. The IDF has repeatedly warned of an urgent manpower shortage, especially after more than two years of war.<\/p>\n

Former prime minister Nafali Bennett, and leading rival candidate against Netanyahu in the upcoming election, praised the possibility of dispersing the Knesset. He said that doing so would be\u201d the only good thing this government has done for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn recent years, Likud<\/a> has become the executive arm of [Shas party leader Arye] Deri and [United Torah Judaism leader Yitzhak] Goldknopf, Bennett said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn alliance built on harming IDF soldiers is destined to collapse. That is what you are seeing now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The remarks came on Tuesday, as Bennett<\/a> outlined his plans for the country if elected alongside opposition Leader Yair Lapid, at the first major campaign event of their newly merged Together party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coalition whip Ofir Katz submitted a bill to dissolve the Knesset with the full backing of coalition faction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[41,37,2742,4029,17431],"class_list":{"0":"post-112518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-israeli-politics","11":"tag-naftali-bennett","12":"tag-ultra-orthodox-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116569312076541294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}