Returning to Normality in the Knesset: the Updated Decision of the Coalition

Almost two and a half months after the opening of the Knesset's winter session, coalition chairman Ofir Katz (Likud) announces that he will allow private legislation to be put on the Knesset's agenda starting in two weeks (January 17th).

If so, according to the wording of the announcement, even now the private bills that will be promoted "will focus only on social, economic and war matters", as was the case in the recent period since the start of the war.

In fact, since the Knesset resumed its deliberations after the summer recess and while the war had already broken out, it was decided in front of the representatives of the opposition led by the Yesh Atid faction to promote only government legislation by consensus.

The difference between the types of bills is that a private proposal is promoted by members of the Knesset personally and must first pass the Ministerial Committee for Legislation and the vote in the preliminary reading in the plenary, before it reaches the Knesset committees for discussion.

This is compared to a government bill that reaches approval in the plenary straight to the first reading, and the chance of advancing it definitively is higher.