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16 February 1949: Name "Knesset" approved for the Constituent Assembly; number of members fixed at 120; the Knesset starts convening in Tel Aviv (first as at what is now the Opera Tower, later at the San Remo Hotel in Tel Aviv) [16] 26 December 1949 – 8 March 1950: Knesset moved to Jerusalem; first convened at the Jewish Agency building
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.
The Knesset approves adding National Unity to the government as part of the emergency wartime government and the Israeli war cabinet [173] 11–12 Oct Lazar Maariv [174] 19 15 4 5 – 41: 7 7 6 5 5 (1.3%) 6 (1.5%) 42 73: 7 Oct The Israel–Hamas war begins [175] 4–5 Oct Lazar Maariv [176] 28 16 6 4 – 29: 10 7 6 5 5 (2.1%) 4 (1.9%) 55 60 27 ...
Demonstrators — young, old, secular, religious — formed human chains to block roads leading to the Knesset. For protesters, the series of laws that curb the Supreme Court’s power marked a ...
It was the first of the government’s major judicial reforms to be passed by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. A protester holds a flare during a demonstration in Tel Aviv on July 27, 2023 ...
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, Otzma Yehudit, Religious Zionist Party, New Hope and Noam — and is led by Benjamin Netanyahu, who has taken office as the Prime Minister of ...
Froumine House [1] (or Frumin House) (Hebrew: בית פרומין; Beit Frumin; also known as the Old Knesset) was the temporary abode of the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, from 1950 to 1966. The building is at 24 King George Street in downtown Jerusalem. The first to the fifth Knesset sessions were conducted there.
Tel Aviv, Israel Yoav Kisch ( Hebrew : יוֹאָב קִישׁ ; born 6 December 1968) is an Israeli politician. Previously a military and then civil pilot, he served as a member of the Knesset for Likud from 2015 to 2023 and has been Minister of Education since December 2022.