Knesset begins vote to set new elections for September 17

MKs begin voting on the bill to dissolve the Knesset and set new elections for September 17 after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to secure a majority of 61 Knesset members.

MKs are voting in a “named ballot” whereby each must stand one after the other and say whether they support of oppose the bill.

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