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JERUSALEM – Israel’s newly elected 26th Knesset will hold its opening session on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 4 p.m. in Jerusalem (9 a.m. in New York), according to the Knesset’s official website. President Isaac Herzog is due to attend, and all 120 members, new and returning, are scheduled to take the oath of allegiance.
The session is a ceremony. It is not the result of a vote for Knesset speaker, and it does not form a government. The website says the final official election results are published on its site.
Context: the opening session is where a new Knesset formally starts its work. Questions over who will lead the chamber are already in play. As we reported earlier, Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party has been collecting signatures to ask for a vote to replace Speaker Amir Ohana during the opening session. That effort is a reported plan, not a decided result.
Why it matters: the opening session sets the start of the new Knesset’s term and the political maneuvering over its leadership. Still unknown: whether a speaker vote is held on Tuesday, who would win it, and how coalition talks will move after the swearing-in.
File photo: the Knesset plenum hall in Jerusalem. It does not show Tuesday’s session.
JBizNews Desk | Jerusalem
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