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Knesset votes 106-0 on first reading to dissolve, potentially moving up elections

Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz's bill to dissolve the 25th Knesset advanced unanimously on first reading by 106-0. The vote opened the process of potentially moving the election earlier, though elections were already required to be held no later than October 27, 2026.

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Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of Knesset members passing through the gate of the parliament's Tel Aviv building in 1949; archival context of the Knesset, not the reported first-reading vote.

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