Michaeli calls for Knesset committee to debate possible Saudi deal

10 August 2023, 2:56 pm

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Labor party leader Merav Michaeli attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting on July 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor party leader Merav Michaeli calls on Likud MK Yuli Edelstein to convene the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee amid reports of an emerging US-brokered normalization deal with Saudi Arabia.

Michaeli says the Knesset needs to verify the details behind the talks.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his “coup government need to be watched with an infinite number of eyes,” she says. “We have to make sure that vital diplomatic decisions are made in accordance with the existential security needs of Israel and not according to the political interests of Netanyahu.”