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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Lapid: ‘This Knesset is done for’
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"
All Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition has brought Israel is pain and disaster, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid declares, reiterating his party’s earlier statement that it will submit a bill for the Knesset’s dissolution next Wednesday.
“Next week, Yesh Atid will put forth legislation dispersing the Knesset. This Knesset is done for. It has nowhere left to go. All it has brought onto the people of Israel is pain, disaster, loss, and crises,” Lapid tells the Knesset plenum.
“You will not pass an evasion law when every day…wonderful Israeli children are killed defending us,” he adds, refering to contentious legislation enshrining draft exemptions for Haredi men.
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