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Liberman urges boycott of final plenum votes on ‘reasonableness’ bill

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on July 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman urges fellow opposition party leaders to boycott the final votes on the coalition’s controversial “reasonableness” bill, which a Knesset committee is expected to approve tomorrow for its second and third plenum readings.
Citing the government’s “unilateral advancement of the legislation,” Liberman says such a boycott would cause the bill to be approved “64-0, like in North Korea.”
“We cannot give legitimacy to legislation that harms Israeli democracy and national resilience,” Liberman tweets
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