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One Druze lawmaker, 29 women, 23 new MKs and three openly gay MKs were elected to the 25th Knesset. [3] The number of Arab MKs was the lowest in two decades with 10 MKs. [4]On 30 June 2024, the Israeli Labor Party announced plans to merge with Meretz to become The Democrats, [5] with Labor MKs expected to become MKs for the new party; the merger was approved on 12 July. [6]
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The swearing-in ceremony of the members of the newly elected 25th Knesset, 15 November 2022. With 86% of the vote counted, the right-wing bloc led by Benjamin Netanyahu, known in Israel as the national camp, was forecast to win a majority of seats at 65, while both leftist Meretz and Balad parties were under the electoral threshold. [121]
Shir resigned from the Knesset in order to run on the Yesh Atid list in the 2022 Israeli legislative election [13] 4 August 2022: Tali Ploskov: Likud: Gadi Yevarkan: Yevarkan resigned from the Knesset in order to run for the new immigrant slot in the 2022 Likud primaries [14] 17 August 2022: Sharon Roffe Ofir: Yisrael Beiteinu: Eli Avidar
It is also possible to postpone the date of the election by a special majority of the Knesset members. Israel uses the closed-list method of party-list proportional representation; [7] thus citizens vote for their preferred party and not for any individual candidates. The 120 seats in the Knesset are then assigned proportionally to each party ...
The Knesset numbers 120 members, after the size of the Great Assembly. The subject of Knesset membership has often been a cause for proposed reforms. Under the Norwegian Law, Knesset members who are appointed to ministerial positions are allowed to resign and allow the next person on their party's list to take their seat. If they leave the ...
Knesset MK Sami Abu Shehadeh announced on 14 January 2021 that he would run for the leadership of Balad. [15] MK and former leader Mtanes Shehadeh sought re-election. The party held primaries on 23 January 2021 for its leader and its list for Knesset. The Balad council, which consists of a total of 600 members, were eligible to vote in Nazareth ...
Early legislative elections were held in Israel on 9 April 2019 to elect the 120 members of the 21st Knesset.Elections had been due in November 2019, but were brought forward following a dispute between members of the current government over a bill on national service for the ultra-Orthodox population, as well as impending corruption charges against incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.