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Before the construction of its current location, the Knesset met in Tel Aviv, [6] before moving to the Froumine building in Jerusalem. [7] The Knesset compound sits on a hilltop in western Jerusalem in a district known as Sheikh Badr before the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, now Givat Ram.
One Druze lawmaker, 29 women, 23 new MKs and three openly gay MKs were elected to the 25th Knesset. [3] The number of Arab MKs was the lowest in two decades with 10 MKs. [4] On 30 June 2024, the Israeli Labor Party announced plans to merge with Meretz to become The Democrats, [5] with Labor MKs expected to become MKs for the new party; the merger was approved on 12 July.
A typical Knesset includes many factions represented. This is because of the low election threshold required for a seat – 1 percent of the vote from 1949 to 1992, 1.5 percent from 1992 to 2003, 2 percent from 2003 to 2014, and 3.25 percent since 2015.
Shir resigned from the Knesset in order to run on the Yesh Atid list in the 2022 Israeli legislative election [13] 4 August 2022: Tali Ploskov: Likud: Gadi Yevarkan: Yevarkan resigned from the Knesset in order to run for the new immigrant slot in the 2022 Likud primaries [14] 17 August 2022: Sharon Roffe Ofir: Yisrael Beiteinu: Eli Avidar
The thirty-seventh government of Israel is the current cabinet of Israel, formed on 29 December 2022, following the Knesset election on 1 November 2022. [5] [6] The coalition government consists of seven parties — Likud, United Torah Judaism, Shas, Religious Zionist Party, Otzma Yehudit, New Hope and Noam — and is led by Benjamin Netanyahu, who has taken office as the Prime Minister of ...
List of members of the fifth Knesset (1961–65) List of members of the sixth Knesset (1965–69) List of members of the seventh Knesset (1969–74) List of members of the eighth Knesset (1974–77) List of members of the ninth Knesset (1977–81) List of members of the tenth Knesset (1981–84) List of members of the eleventh Knesset (1984–88)
Elkin resigned from the Knesset after leaving Likud [6] 29 December 2020: Yael Ron Ben-Moshe: Blue and White: Ofer Shelah: Shelah resigned from the Knesset after leaving Yesh Atid [7] 5 January 2021: Vladimir Beliak: Yesh Atid: Avi Nissenkorn: Nissenkorn resigned from the Knesset after leaving Blue and White [8] 5 January 2021: Moshe Tur-Paz ...
A major demand from the UTJ was that the Knesset be allowed to override the rulings of the Supreme Court. [147] Netanyahu met with the Noam faction leader and its sole MK Avi Maoz on 8 November. [148] Israeli President Isaac Herzog began consultations with heads of all political parties on 9 November after the election results were certified. [149]