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Yisrael Beytenu MK calls to scrap Knesset’s upcoming summer recess
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"
Yisrael Beytenu MK Oded Forer calls on Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana to cancel the legislature’s upcoming recess, which begins at the end of July.
Noting the hardship many Israelis have endured since October 7, such as the tens of thousands of displaced citizens unable to return home and reservists who have been mobilized multiple times, Forer says “no one in the State of Israel is able to return to a proper routine.”
“People fear the difficult security situation that may further escalate, as well as the dire economic situation. More and more families are collapsing under the burden,” he adds in his letter to Ohana, arguing that at such a time “it is unacceptable that the Knesset will freeze its work, the committees will be silenced and the Knesset plenum will go into hibernation.”
Recalling his party’s call to cancel the Knesset’s previous recess, which ran from April 7 to May 19, Forer says lawmakers now “have the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the past and do the minimum required to change the situation and be connected to the nation’s cry.”
