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Wednesday, July 19, 2023
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Committee okays extra Knesset voting day to fast-track approval of ‘reasonableness’ bill
Likud MK Ofir Katz chairs a meeting of the Knesset House Committee in Jerusalem on July 19, 2023. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)
The Knesset House Committee approves the coalition’s scheduled plan to pass the “reasonableness” bill into law before the Knesset breaks for the summer at the end of the month.
According to the schedule, the Knesset plenum will open on Sunday, when it does not usually convene, and Knesset Constitution Law and Justice Committee chair MK Simcha Rothman will present the legislation. Objections and debate on the bill will continue until noon on Monday, after which the vote will begin.
The House Committee limits the number of votes on such objections to 140, with chairman Likud MK Ofir Katz accusing the opposition of “negatively exploiting the tool of using objections.”
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