The two deal with the changes they want to bring to the coalition agreement: senior appointments, Norwegian law, the health portfolio and the possibility of extending the four-year government term, which will be split equally between the Likud and blue and white. • At the same time, the Knesset is voting marathon into the "approval of the rotation law"

Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz meet at the Knesset Speaker's office (Wednesday) and discuss changes that may enter into the coalition agreement between Blue and White and the Likud. On the agenda: senior appointments, Norwegian law, the health portfolio and the possibility of extending the four-year term of office, which will be shared equally.

In the meantime, in the Knesset plenary this afternoon, the votes for final approval of the coalition agreement began on second and third reading. Voting began at 4 p.m., and is expected to take many more hours.

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A large majority of coalition parties voted in the elections so far. In all, about a thousand electronic votes and 16 more Semitic votes are expected - in which the names of all 120 Knesset members are read and each has to answer whether he supports the law or opposes it. The Knesset estimates that the votes will only end in the wee hours of the night or tomorrow before noon.

After the law is finally approved, 61 MKs will have to sign a request for the president of the state to impose a government train on Benjamin Netanyahu. The letter of application must reach the president's residence by midnight tomorrow.

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The "Law of Rotation" includes a host of amendments and additions to the Basic Law: The Government. It details the rotational government structure, defined as a private government, in which a number of ministers and deputy ministers are equal to the two blocs that make up the coalition, as well as the procedure of the inauguration of the prime minister and the alternate prime minister, their exchange dates and the way the government is run. Alongside this, there is another bill designed to allow amendments to the party financing law so that the "Derech Eretz" faction that joins the coalition can receive ongoing funding for its activities.

The reasoning for the reservations ended at around 4:00 pm, following the speeches of dozens of Knesset members, mainly from opposition parties - there is a future, Meretz, the joint list and Israel House - that lasted two days.

MK Eitan Ginsburg of White Brush, who chaired the special committee that drafted the law, said during the hearing: "I am not excited about the idle allegations made, nor was I excited when some MKs chose to express disdain for the bills and the committee hearings, while trying to impeach Seriously and honestly about the process that we led, I was also not thrilled that there were those who entered the committee deliberations only to take pictures of themselves crying out for the end of democracy, without even understanding what is written in the bill.

"Instead of taking their time on both the committee and the plenum and devoting it to in-depth discussion, serious discussion of the content of the proposals, some preferred to put the parliamentary process of legislating the Basic Law to ridicule, submit thousands of disgraceful and disgraceful reservations, only to make it harder to comply with a legislative timetable, And to lead Israel into a fourth election campaign - the last thing we need today in the State of Israel. "

"The only engine of the agreement is the loot distribution"

On the other hand, Opposition Chairman MK Yair Lapid Mish Atid said: "This moment, when we are about to vote on the crushing of the basic laws of the State of Israel, is not happening in a vacuum. For three years since the investigations against him, the Prime Minister has been conducting a campaign against He, his radio broadcasters, his journalists, his ministers and MKs have been explaining to us for three years that democracy must not be trusted. He is not the suspect, all the basic institutions of democracy are the suspects - the courts, the Knesset, the media and the academy.

"All the elements of our police system are replaced today with a simple slogan - the majority states. I agree that the majority states, this is the essential basis of the democratic idea, but it is not the whole democratic idea. No democracy if citizens do not know what is the truth is constantly lying to the public."

Lapid added: "The only engine of the agreement is the distribution of loot. It is not unity that everyone is sitting together on the neck of the Israeli middle class, but agreement on the basic lines, principles of living together.

"You are attacking Israeli democracy. You are breaking down the common denominator. You are causing a complete loss of citizens' trust in politicians. You are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on jobs and honors.

"Let's put politics aside, we will vote for it today in three readings. Coalition and opposition together, for the Independents of the State of Israel. The government will reduce the number of ministers to 18. That's enough. It will give up the official residence of the acting prime minister."

Lapid also claimed public fraud in the definition of "emergency government": "If it were an emergency government, we would now contract in the heroic battle for the health, finance, economy, interior, finance committee - all cases that are really relevant to economic crisis, all cases for which there was no debate , The ones they all gave up in advance.

"Anyone who thinks the economic crisis is behind us doesn't understand what he is talking about. The impact is starting now. A single mother with two children, who lives in a rented apartment and lost her job - next month is on the street. This month another landlord rejected her payments. She has to deal with that. We don't have to worry about who gets what office. "

MK Avigdor Lieberman from Israel Beitano said that "Netanyahu turned the Likud into a cheap Mapai parody in the 1950s and 1960s. All Likudniks became Mapaniks who said what they said on the left. Netanyahu wants to reach Thursday, get 61 signatures and replace the chairman of the regular committee. So he will look for an excuse, he will have two weeks to find an excuse, why take Israel for a fourth election - and so it will be. I appeal to Benny Gantz, think well what you do tomorrow, Before you give 61 signatures, before you give the head of the regular committee to the Likud representative. "

MK Nitzan Horowitz of Meretz said that "the coalition agreement states an explicit date for the process of annexing the territories. This annexation is something that no Israeli government has dared to do so far. A full annexation, annexed by millions of Palestinians in the West Bank, to an end to the aspirations of the Palestinian people for their own state, which are legitimate aspirations. This also puts an end to a Jewish and democratic state, because it will bring Israel to the state of apartheid. That's the end of everything we believe in as a Jewish and democratic state. "

MK Ayelet Shaked on her right said: "I have been singing and MK for eight years and every time we try to pass the increase paragraph, also in Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty and not only in Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation, never We had a majority, and there were always fewer than 61 Knesset members who supported it, and now for the first time there is a majority in the Knesset for the resolution, so I wonder why there is no time for the committee's deliberations to devote a day or two to this passage, since it did not happen and the Likud dropped it from the agenda. I very much hope that in the coming year, whether we are in a coalition or in the opposition, both the Likud and the ultra-Orthodox factions will join us to try to pass this paragraph, which in all Sim between the authorities and I believe improves the dialogue between the Knesset and the Supreme Court. "

Participating in the preparation of the news: Daniel Roth-Avnery