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Inside the Israeli Government Dissolution and 2019 Elections

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Channel: i24NEWS English · 2018 · News & Politics

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THE RUNDOWN | Israel's government will be dissolved after Netanyahu could not get enough votes in the parliament on the ultra-Orthodox draft bill before a critical deadline. What does this mean for the parties running and for the Palestinians? Our Mike Wagenheim reports from the Israeli parliament.

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An emergency meeting of the heads of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition partners on Monday in a last-ditch effort to resolve an impasse over contentious legislation regulating military conscription for ultra-Orthodox Jews ended in a decision to dissolve parliament and call early elections.

The meeting, which got underway shortly after 1:00 p.m. local time at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, was called a day before Israel’s parliament was due to begin preparing a bill on the contentious issue for its final readings with less than a month left to pass a law on the matter under a Supreme Court-imposed deadline.

'Out of national and budgetary responsibility, the leaders of the coalition parties decided unanimously to dissolve the Knesset and go to new elections at the beginning of April after a four-year term,' coalition heads announced in a statement distributed by a spokesman for Netanyahu's Likud party said at the conclusion of the meeting.

The announcement was made hours after Yair Lapid, chairman of the opposition Yesh Atid faction, said that his party would vote against the proposed law saying that Netanyahu had 'surrendered to the ultra-Orthodox because he is afraid of them. We are done being suckers.'

Meanwhile, the White House will reportedly place its long-awaited 'deal of the century' peace plan for the Middle East on hold in light of upcoming Israeli elections.Israel’s Channel 2 News reported on Monday that the Trump Administration’s proposal, set to be unveiled early 2019, may be delayed due to Israel’s current political events.

Earlier on Monday, Israel’s governing coalition voted unanimously to dissolve Israeli parliament and call for snap elections. The coalition said in a statement that elections would be held April 9 of next year, about seven months before the original date.

A senior US official told local media agencies that Israel’s early elections are 'one of many factors we are considering in evaluating the timing of the release of the peace plan.'

Though the details of the plan have yet to be divulged to the public, US Ambassador to Israel Jason Greenblatt previously stated that 'neither side' will see all of their demands fulfilled.

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