“In the name of budgetary and national responsibility, party leaders in the coalition agreed unanimously to dissolve the Knesset and go to new elections at the beginning of April, following a full four-year term,” said a government spokesperson in the name of all the governing parties.

ed note–again, this is not about ‘budgetary responsibility’ but rather about scuttling a peace deal which flies in the face of thousands of years of meticulous planning on the part of Judea, Inc in undoing the historical events of 70 A.D. with the Roman destruction of Jerusalem.

During this almost 4 month interim where there will be no functioning government in Israel, all of Netanyahu’s henchmen in the now-Democrat controlled House of Reps will be given their own ‘license to kill’ and an unfettered, open road in bringing as much heat and harassment down on the head of DJT in what Judea, Inc hopes will result in his fleeing the White House and his subsequent replacement with a died-in-the-wool Christian Zionist Mike Pence. 

JNS

The governing partners of Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition voted unanimously to dissolve the Knesset Monday. New elections are tentatively scheduled for April 9, 2019, four years since the last election, and six months before the previously scheduled election date of November 5, 2017.

“In the name of budgetary and national responsibility, party leaders in the coalition agreed unanimously to dissolve the Knesset and go to new elections at the beginning of April, following a full four-year term,” said a government spokesperson in the name of all the governing parties.

The decision came during a five-hour meeting in the Prime Minister’s Office between leaders of the coalition’s five parties. The party leaders recognized that the narrow 61-member parliamentary majority did not have the staying power to pass key legislation, including a bill aimed at increasing the number orthodox Israeli citizens serving in the military.

The Hareidi Draft Law, as it is called would impose financial sanctions on religious learning institutions which failed to meet enlistment quotas, while simultaneously enabling those who have already selected to defer their military to service to extend their deferrments. Religious parties in the coalition refused to back the legislation.

Israel’s Supreme Court had given the government a January 15, 2019 deadline to pass legislation increasing the number of orthodox draftees.

Netanyahu had hoped to enlist the support of parties outside the coalition to support the bill, but when it became clear that the government would not garner the parliamentary support necessary from the opposition, new elections were announced.

The coalition parties announced that they would all remain in the government until the new election date and would attempt to cooperate on other legislative issues.

By the time of the elections, the current ruling coalition will have governed for just over four years. The average Israeli government historically remains intact for 3.8 years. Rarely do governments last an entire term, due to Israel’s complex parliamentary system.