Israel’s Knesset reopened today to start the summer session as the coalition hangs by a thread after losing its majority, and as the opposition vows to bring it down.
Former whip and Yamina MK Idit Silman defected on April 6, leaving the coalition without a majority in the 120-seat parliament.
The crisis was further exacerbated when the Islamist Ra’am party froze its membership in the coalition due to the unrest at the Har Habayis. If Ra’am withdraws its seats, the government will be in a clear minority.
On Sunday, opposition party heads held a meeting at the Likud party’s headquarters in Tel Aviv, agreeing to continue the “determined and unified fight” to topple the government.
“The government has lost its Knesset majority — it has no public legitimacy, and it is illegitimate,” the statement said, according to The Times of Israel.
The opposition plans to bring a vote of no confidence, a largely symbolic move not expected to have a real effect beyond potentially embarrassing the government.
They are also reportedly weighing whether to bring forward a bill to disperse the government on Wednesday.
If put forward by former prime minister Bibi Netanyahu’s Likud party as a non-government bill and passed in a preliminary reading, the government would not dissolve. The bill would, instead, need to pass a first, second, and third vote in future sessions.
Bringing down the government is useless. Bennett, Bibi and any Prime Minister are all puppets of the radical leftist self-appointed for life supreme court of injustice running the country. BRING DOWN THE SUPREME COURT.
The Zionist State is an unprecedented massive rebellion against Hashem. That State is what really has to (peacefully) come down, not just their “supreme court”.