{"id":2631197,"date":"2026-07-17T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-knesset-dissolves-after-overnight-legislative-blitz\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:07:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:07:57","slug":"israeli-knesset-dissolves-after-overnight-legislative-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-knesset-dissolves-after-overnight-legislative-blitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Knesset dissolves after overnight legislative blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisraeli-knesset-dissolves-after-overnight-legislative-blitz%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2631197&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Israeli Knesset dissolved itself after a hectic legislative session driven by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s coalition, paving the way for new elections scheduled for october 27, 2026. This marks the first time as 1988 that an Israeli government has completed a full term. The government passed several controversial bills in a last-minute effort to solidify its power adn reward allies,including a law increasing government oversight of the national media,which was framed as a challenge to the perceived left-leaning media monopoly. Other notable measures included a bill to suspend prosecutions of ultra-Orthodox Jews avoiding military service-a move which was quickly challenged and halted by the High Court-augments to the media regulatory system, and a declaration of torah study as a \u201cfoundational value\u201d of Israel. Tensions between the government and the judiciary have escalated, with Netanyahu and coalition members openly criticizing the courts, leading to a constitutional crisis. The parliament also approved a bill temporarily halting draft arrests for ultra-orthodox Jews, reflecting the influence of ultra-Orthodox parties in the coalition. Despite the political upheaval, Speaker Amir Ohana expressed hope for future cooperation among Israelis despite disagreements.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Knesset dissolved itself following a multiday deluge of legislation put forth by Prime Minister <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\/\">Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s<\/a> governing coalition, setting the stage for elections later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"219\">Israeli <\/a>lawmakers voted to dissolve the parliament early Friday following an overnight marathon that wrapped up days of last-minute legislative priorities for the government. The bills passed this week by the governing coalition aimed to reward loyal allies and shore up Netanyahu\u2019s position as <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-902821\">voter intention polls<\/a> look ominous.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4653157\/netanyahu-israeli-knesset-dissolves-elections-set\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Israeli Knesset dissolves after overnight legislative blitz, elections set for October<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4653176\/china-slams-trump-accusation-election-meddling\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>China slams Trump\u2019s accusation of election meddling: \u2018Entirely fabricated\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4652929\/house-bill-gottheimer-lawler-dismantle-unrwa\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Bipartisan House members introduce bill to dismantle UN agency that supports Palestinian refugee relief<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are completing a four-year term, we passed nine budgets and hundreds of bills, I thank you for the trust you placed in me, through which together we succeeded in maintaining a four-year term,\u201d said Speaker Amir Ohana as the Knesset session wrapped.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">Israeli lawmakers attend a parliamental hearing for a bill that wants to equate study of Jewish texts with military service, in Jerusalem, Monday, July 13, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ohad Zwigenberg)<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2026\/07\/localimages\/AP26194731413326.jpg?w=696&#8243; &#8220;https:><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Israeli lawmakers attend a parliamentary hearing on a bill that wants to equate the study of Jewish texts with military service, in Jerusalem, Monday, July 13, 2026. (Ohad Zwigenberg\/AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is my hope that we will return here soon and remember that, despite all our disagreements, we are not enemies, but partners, even if political rivals, and that we are all part of one people and one country,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the first time since 1988 that an Israeli government completed a full term in power \u2014 a highly unusual achievement historically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the Knesset was scheduled to break for summer recess on Friday anyway, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elections\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"452\">election<\/a> to determine the next leader of the nation will not take place until Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the biggest victories for the governing coalition \u2014 rushed out overnight before the parliament dissolved \u2014 was a bill granting the government expansive oversight of national media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Championed by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, it was characterized as a strike against \u201cthe Left\u2019s monopoly\u201d on private media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter a determined struggle against every possible entity from the deep state, tycoons, legal advisers, bureaucrats, and panic channels that tried to stop the reform by any means, we succeeded in passing the right-wing reform in the media. We defeated the deep state,\u201d Karhi <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shlomo_karhi\/status\/2077793908898062596\">said on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill replaces the existing Second Authority for Television and Radio and the Council for Cable and Satellite Broadcasting with a unified government regulatory body with jurisdiction over all media and platforms. The members of that body will be selected by Karhi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in the week, the coalition pushed through a bill temporarily suspending the prosecution of ultra-Orthodox Jews arrested for dodging the draft. That bill met the demands of ultra-Orthodox parties that threatened to pull out of the coalition if the crackdown against their communities was not ended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The High Court of Justice, which previously ruled that draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews were unconstitutional, immediately issued a ruling freezing the implementation of the law.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4649367\/israeli-high-court-draft-dodgers\/\">ISRAELI HIGH COURT INTERVENES AGAINST LAW SUSPENDING ARREST OF ULTRA-ORTHODOX DRAFT DODGERS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4637243\/israel-high-court-crisis-anarchy\/\">constitutional crisis<\/a> is emerging between the government and the High Court as Netanyahu, Karhi, and other ministers increasingly disregard the judges\u2019 authority, dismissing them as a \u201cjudicial mafia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coalition passed a supplemental bill that also declared Torah study a \u201cfoundational value\u201d of the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knesset dissolves after legislative blitz, elections set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2631198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26194731413326.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[46187,44798,45251,49528],"class_list":["post-2631197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-government-collapse","tag-israeli-politics","tag-knesset","tag-legislative-process"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26194731413326.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631200,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631197\/revisions\/2631200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}