ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Knesset dissolves, elections slated for Nov. 1
Amir Ettinger and Yehuda Shlezinger
June 30, 2022

The Knesset on Thursday voted on its dissolution triggering what will be Israel’s fifth elections in three years. The vote, carried with no objections, officially ended parliament’s 24’s session, setting Israel’s next general elections for Nov. 1, 2022. Last week saw outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett call for early elections, saying that the efforts to stabilize the increasingly erratic coalition – in power for only a year – have exhausted themselves. With the bill to disband the Knesset now officially on the books, Prime Minister-designate Yair Lapid is slated to head the caretaker government that will see Israel through the elections.  READ MORE

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