of israel weak coalition government Parliament lost a key vote on Monday to pass a routine bill that would extend Israeli law to settlers living in the West Bank, complicating the country’s governance over the region and threatening new elections. was given.
The law, enacted as an emergency measure 55 years ago following Israel’s occupation of the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, usually has broad political support and is easily passed. but former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Marshaled the entire opposition—including politicians who strongly support the law in principle—for voting against it in an effort to embarrass the ruling coalition and potentially bring it down.