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In bid to thwart coalition efforts to win over Haredim, opposition withdraws no-confidence motions from Knesset agenda
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"
In a bid to hamper the coalition’s final legislative push before the end of the Knesset summer legislative session, the opposition has decided to withdraw all no-confidence motions from the agenda during today’s Knesset plenum session.
The opposition’s reasoning is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will have difficulty passing bills without the ultra-Orthodox factions. By declining to advance its no-confidence motions, potentially hours of debate will be shaved from the parliamentary agenda — thus limiting the time the coalition has to reach deals to obtain the Haredi parties’ support.
“We’ve pulled the no-confidence motions so they don’t have time to buy them off and get them to back laws supported by the coalition,” an opposition source tells The Times of Israel.
Last week, United Torah Judaism bolted the coalition, while fellow Haredi party Shas left the government while remaining within the coalition. Both parties had been boycotting coalition bills in the weeks prior in an effort to pressure the government to pass a law exempting yeshiva students from military service.
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