Israel Decides to Dissolve Knesset Next Week, Hold Early Elections in Oct.

Israeli Prime Minister (PM) Naftali Bennett and his alternate Foreign Minister (FM), Yair Lapid, have agreed to dissolve the Knesset next week and go to early elections next October.

This decision came after about a month and a half of severe difficulties faced by the fragile ruling coalition in passing laws in the Knesset since its return from the “spring” holiday on the eighth of last May.

The coalition lost its majority in the Knesset after the resignation of its leader, Idit Silman, from the Prime Minister’s right-wing party last April. The coalition has since failed to pass important bills, especially the “Emergency Law”, which requires the application of Israeli law to settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The Emergency Law is a law that has been renewed every five years since Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967.

It is worth noting that the government of Bennett was the first government to fail to extend this law since then.