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When the opposition called for the vote, Deputy Minister Yaakov Tesler and MK Moshe Roth of Agudat Yisrael voted in favor of dissolving the Knesset.
Deputy Minister Uri Maklev, Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri, led a behind-the-scenes effort to block Knesset's dissolution, securing protections for yeshiva students from arrest amid looming IDF draft enforcement.
The bill to disperse the Knesset was voted down 53-61 at about 3 a.m., and as a consequence, opposition parties will not be able to propose similar legislation for six months. The Haredi parties, however, could still submit a bill to call an early election should negotiations not go their way.
The coalition’s ultra-Orthodox parties have threatened to support the bill due to Netanyahu’s prolonged failure to push through a law to regulate haredi service in the IDF.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition successfully fended off an opposition-led bid to dissolve the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, after ultra-Orthodox parties
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