After passing three bills, the Knesset ended its regular summer sessions on Sunday

30 July 2024 ,
Knesset building. Photo: Kuki Chava Kuki, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.Knesset building. Photo: Kuki Chava Kuki, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Like every year, Israel's parliamentary body is preparing for a three-month recess following its summer session. 

The vacation of the Knesset They are for regular plenary sessions, he works in commissions and in special sessions he will continue his usual operation.

On the last day of regular sessions on Sunday, lawmakers passed three bills in a full chamber, with all their representatives participating.

In the context of the rocket attack that left 12 children dead, the decision to begin the recess generated controversy in some sectors of the opposition and also in the local media.

Yair Golan, leader of the Labor-Meretz Democrats union, expressed his strong objection, stating that “it is inconceivable that tomorrow, a day of near war in the north, of unimaginable burials, of war in Gaza, with 115 hostages in the hands of Hamas, tens of thousands of displaced people in the north and south, the Knesset simply going on vacation.”

One of the committees that will continue to be active is the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, which is currently debating an ultra-Orthodox law on military conscription.

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