Knesset Passes Land-Sale Law

by Hillel Fendel

 The opposition withdrew most of its objections to the Land Reform bill
– for tactical reasons – and the Knesset passed an amended bill
mandating the sale of 400,000 dunams of the Land of Israel. One
thousand dunams equals one square kilometer.

The final vote, which was accomplished by a roll call of each
individual Knesset Member by name, was 61-45.

A last-minute compromise between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, head of the Labor Party, supposedly
enabled the Labor Party to vote in favor of the bill and thus remain in
the coalition. However, five of Labor’s 13 MKs – MKs Cabel,
Yechimovitch, Pines, Peretz, and Tamir – still voted against it. The
five represent the hard core of internal party opposition to Labor
Chairman Barak, and Tamir intimated on Monday that the five might well
split off and form a separate Knesset faction.
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