US EditionNetanyahu survives attempt to dissolve parliament
- On June 12, 2025, Prime Minister Netanyahu's government survived a parliamentary vote on dissolving the Knesset in Jerusalem.
- The vote followed tensions over efforts to draft ultra-Orthodox men, known as Haredim, who widely refuse military service during Israel's ongoing war.
- Most ultra-Orthodox coalition partners opposed the bill, and negotiations involved the Haredi factions, while the war strained the military and society.
- The bill failed with a 61 to 53 vote, barring another dissolution attempt for six months and marking the government's most serious challenge since the 2023 Hamas attack.
- This outcome solidified Netanyahu’s coalition amid public anger over draft exemptions and suggests continued political tensions linked to military conscription.
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Israel narrowly avoided elections: What happened and what happens now?
The Israeli government narrowly avoided collapse on Wednesday, after Haredi parties in the coalition threatened to vote in favor of early elections. While the vote never came to fruition, the very fact that Israel got this close to elections shook the country, and the controversy that led to this hasn’t been fully resolved yet. Wait, the government in Israel can collapse? In Israel, the government can collapse before it completes its four-year t…
Netanyahu Survives Knesset Vote Over Military Conscription Bill
Israel’s parliament rejected a preliminary vote to dissolve itself in the early hours of June 12, giving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition more time to tackle a political deadlock over the government’s controversial military conscription bill. The Knesset said in a statement that 61 members of parliament opposed the Bill for the Dissolution of the Twenty-Fifth Knesset, while 53 supported it. The rejection of the vote to dissol…
Trump dispatches Huckabee to prop up crumbling Netanyahu government
TEL AVIV—U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has reportedly been meeting with ultra-Orthodox members of Israel’s governing coalition as part of efforts to prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right administration from collapsing.
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