Posted on 10/27/2008 9:46:39 AM PDT by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) President Shimon Peres dissolved the Knesset Monday evening, a necessary step before holding new national elections. The announcement came at the beginning of the Knesset's winter session.
The possibility of early elections arose when acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stepped down as head of the Kadima party and was replaced by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. Livni then became Prime Minister-designate, and was charged with creating a coalition. Livni failed to create a coalition, and on Saturday night announced that she would recommend to President Peres to call for new national elections instead of attempting to create a government.
On Monday, Peres met with the heads of the Knesset factions to hear their recommendations. Each faction head could recommend that someone other than Livni be chosen to assemble a coalition, or that the public be allowed to go to the polls. At the end of the day, Peres announced that the overwhelming consensus favored elections.
Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik of Kadima spoke at the opening ceremony for the Knesset's winter session on Monday evening and informed the assembled Knesset members that “the opening ceremony is apparently the final note.” Itzik called on those assembled to avoid incitement and allegations against each other, and called for a national unity government that would include parties from both ends of the political spectrum.
My non-vote goes to Netanyahu
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When he was 14 years old, his family moved to the United States and settled in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb, where he graduated from Cheltenham High School. Netanyahu's older brother Yonatan was killed in Uganda during Operation Entebbe in 1976. His younger brother Iddo is a radiologist and writer. All three brothers served in the Sayeret Matkal reconnaissance unit, Benjamin Netanyahu from 1967 to 1973. He earned a B.S. degree in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, and an M.S. degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1977, and has studied political science at Harvard and MIT. After graduate school, Netanyahu worked at The Boston Consulting Group in Boston, Massachusetts, and eventually returned to Israel. He has authored several books, including two on fighting terrorism.
Ben Netanyahu should be prime minister, IMO.
Netanyahu.....anybody but Kadima and anyone associated with Olmerde or Labor. Just get a real Israeli in charge instead of the IINOs.
With the Knesset formally dissolved, who’s in charge until elections if a dire national emergency should arise? Do all ministers keep their administrative jobs until they are replaced after the elections?
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