Voting on a budget for 2022 was expected to conclude late Thursday or on Friday. The vote on the annual budget for what is left of 2021 passed by 61 to 59 in the 120-seat Knesset, or Parliament. “The reason it does is Netanyahu, who is still around and ahead in the polls.” “It’s a miracle that it stays together,” Reuven Hazan, a professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said of the coalition.
So far, that common interest has staved off internal battles as the coalition partners focused on approving a budget. Bennett’s predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, out of office. The governing coalition, made up of right-wing, centrist and left-wing political factions as well as a small Arab Islamist party, has been bound together mostly by its desire to keep Mr.
JERUSALEM - Israel’s Parliament narrowly approved a state budget on Thursday, the country’s first in more than three years, removing an imminent threat to the survival of the government that could bring some political stability after a chaotic stretch of four elections within two years.īut the razor-thin majority eked out by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s coalition of eight parties with clashing ideologies and disparate agendas raised questions about whether the government could last out its four-year term and end Israel’s prolonged political morass.
