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40-signatures debate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on February 23, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 23, 2026, 7:05 pm
Netanyahu: An attack on Israel would be ‘most serious mistake’ in Iranian history
If war with Iran comes, internal conflicts ‘will be put into deep freeze,’ Opposition Leader Yair Lapid tells Knesset during 40-signatures debate
By Sam Sokol and Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, January 19, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 19, 2026, 10:22 pm
PM vows no Qatari, Turkish troops in Gaza after countries given role on oversight body
At Knesset debate, Netanyahu acknowledges argument with US, insists Hamas will be disarmed; Lapid: Either you have cut a secret deal or ‘Trump doesn’t give a damn about you’
By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a 40-signature debate at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 6, 2026, 5:45 am
‘You were completely wrong’: Netanyahu spars with Lapid in stormy Knesset debate
PM, opposition leader argue over relations with US, October 7, Haredi draft exemption bill in so-called 40-signature session called by Gantz to discuss ‘extremist government’
By Lazar Berman and Ariela Karmel
L-R: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, December 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Opposition Leader and head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 1, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
December 9, 2025, 12:14 am
Netanyahu backs ‘historic’ Haredi draft bill in fiery Knesset debate on wartime conduct
PM denies Israel’s global standing has collapsed, blames criticism on antisemitism, touts ties with Trump and Putin, defends pardon request; Lapid urges him to admit he’s guilty and go home
By Nava Freiberg and Ariela Karmel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 26, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 26, 2025, 5:18 pm
‘Democracy isn’t in danger,’ Netanyahu tells Knesset in tirade against ‘deep state’
‘The more Hamas persists in its refusal to release our hostages, the more powerful the pressure we will exert,’ says PM, threatening to seize territory in Gaza
By Sam Sokol
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