Gantz Warns: New Post of West Bank Minister Will Upend ‘Crucial Command System’

evening, after it passed a preliminary reading earlier in the week.

Three votes, after the preliminary one, are required, each requiring the support of 61 lawmakers in the 120-member Knesset, since it is a change to the Zionist entity’s quasi-constitutional Basic Law: The Government.

Part of a legislative blitz demanded by far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties as preconditions to form Benjamin Netanyahu’s expected government, the bill will for the first time create a permanent mechanism for two ministers in a single ministry.

A previous second minister in the Defense Ministry, Gantz’s party colleague Michael Biton, was appointed in 2020-2021 through a temporary mechanism and was in charge of non-operational affairs.

The likely incoming coalition wants the bills to pass into law before the government is sworn in, with Netanyahu having until December 21 to declare he has cobbled together a coalition.

Source: Israeli media