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Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Knesset to resume limited legislative activity tomorrow
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. 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 will resume some legislative activity tomorrow, after suspending nearly all committee meetings and plenum sessions following the outbreak of war with Iran over the weekend.
Following a situational assessment with senior Knesset officials as well as coalition and opposition representatives, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana announces that committee discussions will be held on war-related legislation, budgetary matters and necessary meetings of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Committee meetings will only be held in chambers that serve as protected spaces or adjacent to them, while visits and tours will remain curtailed.
A missile alert in Jerusalem forced several members of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to take shelter on Monday, interrupting a special closed session in which they were receiving an operational intelligence review of the war, as well as holding a vote approving the declaration of a “special situation” on the home front.
During the alert, members of the committee from both the coalition and opposition took shelter in the chambers of the Diaspora Affairs Committee, which is reinforced as a bomb shelter. The lawmakers snapped a selfie together in a show of wartime unity, then posted it to social media.
The Times of Israel Community.