Final reading of bill to limit PM’s term to 8 years delayed until next week

Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar announces the final reading of a bill limiting prime ministers to a maximum of eight years in office would be delayed until next week, after an all-nighter in the Knesset.

The coalition apparently lacked a majority without Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who is meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Sholz. Opposition lawmakers pulled all their reservations that would have delayed the votes until Bennett arrived, forcing Sa’ar having to delay the reading.

[The law] passed overnight and in the morning hours in a second reading. All its clauses were approved by the required majority… Next week we will vote on the third reading and god willing the work will be completed,” Sa’ar writes on Twitter.