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Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee votes to accept Bismuth as new head
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"
The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee votes 9-7 to appoint Likud MK Boaz Bismuth as chairman, officially pushing out former chairman and fellow Likud lawmaker Yuli Edelstein.
The vote comes less than an hour after the Knesset House Committee voted 10-4 to recommend Bismuth taking over the powerful parliamentary panel, in a move designed to end an impasse over legislation on military draft exemptions for the Haredi community.
Asked if Edelstein’s ouster will increase the chances of passing such a bill, a coalition source replies: “I don’t think it will make much of a difference.”
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