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A Storm at the Knesset

It's a fundamental change, (one) of those bills where every word matters.
And this is how the vote on it was heard, or rather wasn't. Members of the
opposition were furious at the expedited process; at the end of three
discussions, which were mostly a show for the cameras, chairman of the
committee Nissan Slomiansky decided to vote on the bill in preparation for
approving it at the general assembly by first call. The protests were of no
help, the Constitution Committee approved for the first time in the
country's history a bill that will allow ninety Knesset Members to impeach
another member from the house. Balad's Knesset Members, who are
suspended from deliberations due to their meeting with terrorists' family
members, weren't at the deliberation, but their friends on the Joint List
showed solidarity and threatened to follow them if they're impeached from
the Knesset. Some members of the coalition preferred to be absent from
the deliberation and only came to the vote, others spoke against and voted
for it. The bill will soon come to a vote at the general assembly before first
call, and may get into the law book still in the (Knesset's) current session.

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