Meretz MK Yair Golan to serve as chair of Knesset Immigration Committee

Meretz MK Yair Golan speaks during a plenary session in the Knesset, Jerusalem on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)
Meretz MK Yair Golan speaks during a plenary session in the Knesset, Jerusalem on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz reportedly decides that party MK and former IDF general Yair Golan will serve as chairman of the Knesset Immigration and Absorption Committee following the swearing-in of the new government tomorrow.

According to the law establishing the panel, the committee deals with “immigration, absorption, dealing with emigrants, Jewish and Zionist education in the diaspora, and all the issues raised in the contacts between the government, the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency. “

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