The 23rd Knesset officially dispersed as the clock struck midnight on Tuesday night and the deadline to approve a 2020 budget expired, sending Israelis to the polls for the fourth time in less than two years. Elections were automatically called for 90 days from now, namely March 23, 2021, though that date could yet be changed by vote.
The failure to pass a budget came just seven months after the swearing-in of the “unity government” between Likud and Blue and White. The two parties, which had fought each other bitterly in three indecisive elections, agreed to form a power-sharing government with a rotating premiership between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz in May.
But despite pledges to overcome their differences to fight the coronavirus pandemic, the political turmoil followed them into government, with both leaders soon claiming the other was breaking their coalition agreements.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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We need Moshiach
A G-dless knesset cannot last.
It’s brought down in seforim that in order for Moshiach to come, the medina darf geit inter. The fact that the secular Knesset is in a perpetual state of failure, that in it of itself is a good sign. It’s like Rabbi Akiva seeing the fox dreisach arum in the bais hamikdash. After all the death and destruction brought about thru Coronavirus, we are clearly at the very end of galus. Time to stop being petty, and think/care about your neighbors.