Bennett Says Together Submitted 17 Bills and Sets Out Knesset Priorities

Together leader Naftali Bennett said on Friday, November 13, that his party had submitted 17 bills on the Knesset's first day. In a statement outlining its parliamentary priorities, he said Together had prepared detailed work plans and legislation, and placed benefits for military personnel and reservists at the head of its agenda. “We are not waiting for anyone,” Bennett wrote in Hebrew. He criticized the management of public services and said working citizens who pay taxes deserved better service. He described the proposed “Law for Those Who Serve” as redirecting budgets toward people who serve in the military. Bennett also listed legislation to establish a state commission of inquiry into the massacre and a “Metropolis Law” transferring transportation powers to local authorities, with the stated aims of improving public transport and reducing congestion. His agenda included the “Sagi Laws,” named for Maj. Sagi Golan, which he described as advancing equality for the LGBT community. Other priorities he named included education, rehabilitation of confrontation-line areas and Gaza border communities, Holocaust survivors, people with combat trauma and the Druze community. Bennett said Liran Avishar Ben-Horin, who had spent the previous two years developing the program with him, would take over the Knesset Finance Committee on Monday, November 16. He pledged to work for people who had not voted for Together as well as its supporters.