Netanyahu-bloc to boycott arrangements committee meeting due to fast

• Published date: 26 June 2021
• Date: 26 June 2021
• Author: Hezki Baruch
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

MK Yariv Levin, chairman of the Likud faction and the opposition center, said, "Since the formation of the government, the coalition has been operating in a predatory and unprecedented manner, trampling on all the working rules in the Knesset, as has been the practice for many years."

"The attempt to make a decision regarding the composition of the Knesset committees without real negotiations with the opposition is fundamentally invalid. Setting a meeting on such a significant and deliberately controversial issue on a fast day crosses another red line and is a complete break from practice as it exists in the Knesset," Levin said.

"In these circumstances, the opposition will not attend the meeting to be held tomorrow, and will act...