Knesset in a sentence

The High Court also struck down Knesset legislation relating to the illegal immigration of migrant African workers, and it did this three times even though the Knesset each time passed revised laws with a large majority.

When it became clear that Levin’s proposal could not be fast-tracked in the Knesset, the chair of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, Simcha Rothman, published on Jan.

If a national budget is not approved by August 25, or if that date is not postponed by the Knesset, the Knesset would be dispersed and elections would be held in November.

Since then, lots of water flowed down the Yarkon River, the government has fallen, the Knesset has dispersed, and Nisskorn has begun a search for a more promising vehicle to get him into the Knesset in the coming election.

The legal opinion allowing the Knesset to form the House Committee did not come from Mandelblit, but from the Knesset’s own legal adviser, Eyal Yinon.

Maklev turned to Knesset officials asking to curtail the process surrounding a bill to enable a vote in the plenum before the Knesset is dissolved.

On May 30, the Knesset dissolved itself and called a new election for September 17. While the spring newcomers technically remain Knesset members through September, they’ve hardly had a chance to make their mark.

The inauguration is taking place under unique circumstances, occurring after the shortest-ever serving Knesset, and without 13 Members of Knesset (MKs) who are boycotting the ceremony in protest.

The so-called camera bill failed to gain majority support in the Knesset Regulatory Committee Monday when MKs voted 12-12 on a motion to fast-track the measure so that the bill would not have to wait the usual 48 hours before a Knesset vote.

We, as a Knesset, need to think about how to restore the Knesset’s power to supervise the government.

Early Thursday morning, the Knesset passed the law, which has been dubbed “the nation-state Law,” with 62 lawmakers voting in favor, 55 opposed, and two abstaining, after hours of heated debate in the Knesset chamber.

According to the newly adopted amendment, a prime minister can only be deemed unfit for reasons of physical or mental disability, and only by a 75% Knesset majority vote.

After the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, passed a controversial law two weeks ago that aims to limit the power of the country’s Supreme Court, images of Tel Aviv’s protests went viral.

Alternatively, if the hundreds of thousands of right-wing Jews who demonstrated in front of the Knesset decided to do the same on the holiest site for Judaism, again, no police force in the world could stop them.

A third piece of legislation that was approved would let parliament pass laws impervious to judicial review, with a simple majority of 61 members in Israel's 120-seat parliament, the Knesset.

Based on that mantra, generations of justices killed more than 20 Knesset laws, some of them three times, because, the justices argued, they did not comply with the Basic Laws, and, as you already know, the Basic Laws are the constitution.

Earlier on Thursday night, the channel’s well-connected political reporter Michael Shemesh said that just before the vote on the budget in the Knesset, tensions in the coalition continue to rise.

Edelstein, who is the chair of the Knesset’s (Israeli parliament) powerful Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, thanked Gallant for “joining the path I’ve been leading for weeks”.

From left: Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast Director Albert Veksler, Knesset member Robert Ilatov, and Israel's then-President Reuven Rivlin at the first Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast in Jerusalem, 2017.

He served with tremendous dignity as Speaker of the Knesset, and, as Israel’s Ambassador to Poland, worked to bring both nations closer together.