Election on November 1st: Knesset MK's voted in the 2nd and 3rd reading on dissolving intself

The Knesset plenum voteד in the second and third readings on the Knesset Dissolution Law. The plenum will not advance the Metro Act and the laws necessary to obtain a visa exemption when traveling to the United States. In the Knesset, it was decided that the elections for the 25th Knesset will be on November 1. This is after the bill to hold the election on October 25 fell on second and third reading. The vote was supposed to take place last night until midnight, but it was postponed due to the lack of agreements between the opposition and the coalition on laws to be promoted in cooperation despite the dispersal, most notably the Metro Act, laws required to promote U.S. visa exemptions and electronic handcuffs to protect victims of domestic violence.

The Knesset dissolution bill, which was approved tonight by the Knesset committee headed by MK Nir Orbach, sets the date for the next election on November 1. However, the opposition has added a reservation that the election will be held on October 25. After the Knesset dissolves, Yair Lapid will become prime minister. The 14th of the State of Israel.
Representatives from all factions will speak at the debate, and at 08:45, opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to speak in the plenum. At 09:00 MK Auerbach is expected to sum up the debate, and then the voting on the reservations to the law will begin - and then on the law itself in both readings.
The delay was accompanied by a particularly embarrassing zigzag: around 9:00 PM last night, Knesset members were informed that the vote had been postponed to the next day and asked to "prepare for a long day." A little over an hour later, Knesset members were asked to return urgently to the Mishkan because the vote would take place at 11:30 PM - but in the end it did not take place. Shortly after midnight, the Knesset committee headed by MK Nir Orbach approved the bill to dissolve the Knesset for a second and third reading.
A few hours later, the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee headed by MK Gilad Karib unanimously approved for the second and third reading the 25th Knesset Election Law. Talkbacks In addition, the proposal stipulates that polling stations will be located in sheltered housing, nursing homes and housing clusters, where at least 75 residents live.
At the request of MKs David and Shlomo Qarai from the Likud, it was determined that the Central Election Commission will present data on voting percentages by region. MK Karib announced that he would submit a reservation according to which an authoritative principle would be established in the law, according to which the Election Commission will publish data on voting percentages at the national and regional level five times during Election Day.
Both the opposition and the coalition seek to complete the dissolution of the Knesset today, otherwise the "Judea and Samaria regulations", which allow Israeli criminal law to be applied in the settlements, will expire. The discussions beyond that date - thus bringing an end to what the party called the "apartheid regulations".
Earlier yesterday, several factions filed thousands of reservations with the aim of delaying the move, hoping to be able to legislate at the last minute initiatives that were not included in the agreement document between the two blocs. However, the Knesset committee has activated a clause in the bylaws that allows for a discussion of them and to determine that the vote will begin at a pre-determined time.
Transport Minister Merav Michaeli and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman discussed with the opposition at night the promotion of the Metro Law, and the opposition offered to support the Metro Law in exchange for canceling the Amichai Shikli provision. A senior source on the right said in response: "It will not happen. If he considers 'values' as he claims, he will announce that he will pass the Metro law unconditionally, for the sake of the homeland." After the proposal came up, Michaeli entered the office of outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett together with the chairman of RAAM Mansour Abbas, and later convened the Labor faction for a meeting.
The Yisrael Beiteinu party, which is a member of the coalition, even increased its efforts and stated that it would not remove the reservation after no agreements were reached on the promotion of the Metro Law. MK Yulia Malinowski of Yisrael Beiteinu, chair of the Committee for Special National Infrastructure Initiatives and Jewish Religious Services, which discussed the Metro Law, wrote on her Twitter account: Both Shikli for Metro and changing the election date. "Unfortunately, coalition officials have torpedoed all the possibilities, so we will not withdraw any reservations and go all the way."
Following the fight over the metro law, the party feared there was a future in postponing the dissolution of the Knesset, and in talks with the heads of the various coalition parties, passed an unequivocal demand to seek the dissolution of the Knesset at an agreed date - until midnight yesterday.
However, shortly after the publication of this demand of Yesh Atid, Lapid sent a message of unity to Lieberman, in fact announcing that he had joined the fight against the law. "There can be no quarrel between me and Avigdor Lieberman. We are working together to move the metro," Lapid tweeted, with a bad understanding in the background that Lieberman does not intend to give up. Labor Party Chairman and Transportation Minister Merav Makali, who also promotes the Metro Law, stung and wrote in response to Lapid's tweet: "Better late than never." Either way - the law finally fell and will be promoted only after the election.