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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Knesset advances motion adopting Trump’s plan to end Gaza conflict, coalition boycotts vote
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAriela Karmel is a political correspondent at The Times of Israel. She previously reported for Calcalist and Haaretz. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern and African History from Tel Aviv University and a BA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.
A motion to adopt US President Donald Trump’s 20-point “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” advances in the Knesset, passing its first reading with 39 votes in favor and zero votes against.
Almost no coalition lawmakers attend the vote, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an apparent coalition boycott of the motion, which was brought by the opposition. The few who do attend, such as Likud MK Tally Gotliv, don’t participate in the vote.
Speaking before the Knesset, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, who sponsored the measure, says that he is “surprised and disappointed” by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s absence.
“This is the first opportunity we have been given as a Knesset to tell President Trump, to tell the world, to tell ourselves, that we are uniting around a common goal,” he says. “Netanyahu chose to boycott the vote and not come here. It’s a shame.”
The Knesset overwhelmingly approved my proposal to endorse and adopt President Trump’s 20 point plan on Gaza with a vote of 39 in favor and 0 against.
Israel now officially endorses and adopts President Trump’s plan.
Thank you @realDonaldTrump ???????????????? pic.twitter.com/9CZbWR3vcN
— יאיר לפיד – Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) December 3, 2025
A coalition boycott of the vote was expected given the plan’s reference to Palestinian statehood, which the government strongly opposes.
The plan does not commit to Palestinian statehood. It outlines a path toward ending the Gaza conflict, disarming Hamas and putting Gaza under the authority of a “technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee” and multinational peacekeeping force.
But the plan also asserts that “while Gaza re-development advances and when the Palestinian Authority reform program is faithfully carried out, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged that “there will not be a Palestinian state.”
Lapid says that this vote is an opportunity for the Knesset to “show its gratitude to President Trump for this plan, and for what it has achieved: the return of the hostages, the end of the war, a return to life.”
The bill will now proceed to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee where it will be discussed ahead of a second and third reading.
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