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Governments have blocked private member’s bills that might undermine their stability for years. Last April, for instance, then-Knesset Speaker Benny Gantz blocked hundreds of such bills, including one meant to prevent a criminal defendant from becoming prime minister and one meant to limit the prime minister to two terms. Three weeks ago, then-Speaker Yariv Levin blocked similar bills that were aimed largely at then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Nevertheless, the opposition – most of which was in the government until this week – protested the move. Shas lawmaker Yinon Azoulay wrote Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy that “preventing a Knesset member from legislating is a major blow to the fabric of parliamentary life,” and “fear of ‘wars’ or ‘trolling’ isn’t a sufficient reason for not advancing” private member’s bills.
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And some necessities – such as a summer education program for Israeli students and an aid package for the country’s flagship airline El Al – have fallen through the cracks.
At midnight on Tuesday night, the clock will run out on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his attempt to form a government. After a month of maneuvering, pressuring and sweet-talking potential allies, the Israeli premier appears to have run out of options and the mandate to form a government will return to the president. What will happen next is still unclear.
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Apr. 29, 2021 5:47 AM
Ten months have elapsed since the permits committee at the State Comptroller’s Office ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reimburse Michigan businessman Spencer Partrich for the value of suits and cigars he received from Partrich. But so far the prime minister has failed to do so and is reportedly refusing to cooperate on the matter.
Shlomit Barnea Farago, the legal adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office, whom the committee entrusted with dealing with the issue, has informed the committee that she has failed to resolve the matter and that the prime minister is ignoring her requests on the issue. According to correspondence with a lawyer for Netanyahu, the prime minister received cigars alone valued at 25,000 shekels ($7,700).