Knesset insider Jeremy Man talks about the three main bills that were presented in the Knesset right before the begin of their recess. Listen as Yishai and Man Saltan discuss the specifics of these bills and how everything shook out after votes in the Knesset. Additionally, some notes on housing.
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Panels Poll questions broadcast on Knesset Channel March 20 2014
Are you pleased or not pleased with the party you voted for in the 2013 election?
Likud Beitenu voters: 61% pleased, 28% not pleased.
Yesh Atid voters: 25% pleased, 75% not pleased.
Labor voters: 64% pleased, 36% not pleased.
Bayit Yehudi voters: 71% pleased, 29% not pleased.
Which subject should the next Knesset session focus on?
70% Cost of living, 18% negotiations with Palestinians, 8% Iranian threat, 1% Jewish conversion issue
Panels conducted two polls last weekend for Sof Shavua, the sister paper of the Jerusalem Post.
One poll with the new threshold of 3.25% and one poll with the 2% threshold.
New Threshold (3.25%)
Current Knesset seats in [brackets]
36 [31] Likud Beitenu
20 [15] Labor
15 [12] Bayit Yehudi
12 [19] Yesh Atid
11 [06] Meretz
07 [11] Shas
07 [07] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
04 [06] Movement
04 [04] Hadash
04 [–] Strong Israel
00 [03] Balad
00 [04] Ra’am-Ta’al
00 [02] Kadima
69 [61] Right-Religious
51 [59] Center-Left-Arab
Old Threshold (2%)
Current Knesset seats in [brackets]
34 [31] Likud Beitenu
19 [15] Labor
14 [12] Bayit Yehudi
11 [19] Yesh Atid
10 [06] Meretz
07 [11] Shas
07 [07] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
04 [06] Movement
04 [04] Hadash
04 [03] Balad
03 [04] Ra’am-Ta’al
03 [–] Strong Israel
00 [02] Kadima
65 [61] Right-Religious
55 [59] Center-Left-Arab
Knesset Jeremy Analysis: Surprisingly, Strong Israel comes in with 4 mandates in the new poll.
Ra’am-Ta’al, Balad and Kadima do not pass the new threshold. The right-religious block grows to 69 seats under the new threshold, compared to 65 with the old threshold. Panels points out that not everyone is aware of the new threshold and that we do expect merging of the smaller parties in the near future.
The last of the Big 3 Bills passed yesterday evening.
The Basic Law was supposed to be voted on at 1 AM on Thursday, but the House Committee decided to move up the vote to 6:30 PM on Wed, due to the opposition’s boycott. Unlike the other two bills all 68 coalition MKs showed up and voted in favor.
The official Knesset protocol will show that not one opposition MK gave a speech against the bill and no MK voted against the bill.
Speaker Edelstein announced that there was no coalition MKs objections and that all of the opposition objections were removed because the objecting MKs were not in the plenum to voice them.
Basic Law: National Referendum passed 68-0 in its second reading.
Basic Law: National Referendum passed 68-0 in its third reading.
To read more about the National Referendum Bill: https://knessetjeremy.com/2014/03/09/national-referendum-bill/
Basic Law: National Referendum (for good and for bad) is complete.
* The Knesset will come back for two more days of sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday next week before going to recess.
Do you want to learn more about each of the Big 3?
Two-part KnessetJeremy FM interview on Big 3 (Electoral Reform, Shaked, National Referendum) Bills.
Part 1 (from 4:30 on): https://soundcloud.com/yishaifleisher/march2014-q2-final-1
Part 2 (from 4:25 on) https://soundcloud.com/yishaifleisher/march2014-q3-final
Interview aired on Galey Yisrael on Tuesday March 11 2014.
The interview was conducted the day before.
Jeremy's Knesset Insider 