JERUSALEM: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU WINS TWO WEEK REPRIEVE TO TRY AND SHORE UP HIS SHAKY GOVERNMENT

Record ID: 399125

  • Title: JERUSALEM: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU WINS TWO WEEK REPRIEVE TO TRY AND SHORE UP HIS SHAKY GOVERNMENT
  • Date: 7th December 1998
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (DECEMBER 7, 1998) (REUTERS) 1. PAN ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU GOING UP TO PODIUM OF KNESSET 0.16 2. SLV/SV GESHER PARTY LEADER DAVID LEVY SHOUTING TO NETANYAHU," There was never such a scandal." (2 SHOTS) 0.32 3. SV NETANYAHU ASKS THE CHAIRMAN TO QUIETEN THE KNESSET 0.38 4. HAS/SV MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT SHOUT
  • Embargoed: 22nd December 1998 12:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA5VOSZTOLF83IIKGVON5SWOO4B
  • Story Text: Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won two
    weeks to try to shore up his shaky government with a
    procedural ploy that put off a vote in Israel's parliament to
    oust him from office.

    United Torah Judaism, a small ultra-Orthodox Jewish
    party in Netanyahu's right-wing coalition, brought six hours
    of drama in the 120-member Knesset to an anti-climactic close
    by submitting a no-confidence motion in the government.

    Under parliamentary rules, the manoeuvre meant the first
    reading of a long-standing bill to call an early general
    election could not proceed on Monday as scheduled.

    The stormy session highlighted Netanyahu's political woes
    over the deal, which he has put on hold over alleged
    Palestinian violations and amid a surge of violent Palestinian
    protests to try to secure the release of prisoners from
    Israeli jails.

    Despite opposition from key rightist coalition partners
    to the peace deal, Netanyahu has remained in power with the
    help of the left-centre Labour party, which wants to see the
    interim accord carried out during the three months ending in
    February.

    But Netanyahu angered Labour last week when his cabinet
    suspended peace moves with the Palestinians.

    Labour deputies jeered, laughed and shouted when Netanyahu
    addressed the chamber towards the end of the session and party
    leader Ehud Barak left before he had finished speaking.


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