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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Coalition clears Knesset agenda ahead of Likud vote on new defense committee chair
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
A view of the Knesset plenum on July 23, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The coalition clears the Knesset’s agenda ahead of a Likud faction vote on replacing Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman MK Yuli Edelstein.
Lawmakers are currently voting on a symbolic Knesset motion calling for the annexation of the West Bank, but all further votes for today are canceled.
The Likud’s Knesset faction is expected to meet at 4 p.m. today to choose a replacement for Edelstein over his refusal to advance a conscription bill based on a compromise reached with the Haredi parties last month.
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