Knesset dispersal postponed after agreement between Edelstein, haredi leaders
This decision came after MK Moshe Gafni reported on the results of the negotiations between Netanyahu and Edelstein to Rabbi Hirsch.
MK Yuli Edelstein announced, "After long discussions, we have reached agreements on the principles on which the draft of the draft law will be based." He went on to say these laws will reform Israeli society.
Earlier Thursday morning, Degel Hatorah leader MK Rabbi Dov Landau, as well as a leader of the Haredi community, Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, stated that the Knesset dispersal vote should be postponed by a week, Maariv reported.
However, Agudat Yisrael stated early Thursday morning, "As of this moment, no draft law has been submitted, nor has any written proposal with the details of the law regulating the status of yeshiva students,"
"Therefore, we are acting according to the clear instructions of our revered and esteemed members of the Council of Torah Sages, and we support the proposal to dissolve the Knesset, should it come to a vote."
This comes after a night in which the preliminary vote to disperse the Knesset was on the agenda.
Negotiations over a new haredi draft bill ran into the early morning hours.
The opposition leaders are still pushing to disperse the Knesset
Opposition leaders announced in a joint statement on Wednesday morning that they intend to follow through with a preliminary vote on a bill to disperse the Knesset. As of 10 pm, the opposition parties had not removed the bill from the agenda, indicating that they believed it would pass.The decision came following a meeting between the leaders of all the opposition parties, including the Israeli-Arab parties Ra’am and Hadash-Ta’al, in the Knesset, during which they assessed whether or not they would have a majority for the bill to pass.
The opposition leaders announced that they were removing all other items they proposed from Wednesday’s plenum agenda, in order to attempt to hold the vote as soon as possible. Earlier this week, the coalition placed dozens of items of its own on the agenda in order to buy more time.
Their decision was risky, since according to Knesset rules, if the bill does not end up passing, they will be barred from proposing a similar bill for six months.
