Posted on 04/06/22
| News Source: JPost
Israel's government began to crumble on Wednesday after Yamina MK and the coalition whip Idit Silman announced her resignation from the government.
With this, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's government loses its majority in Knesset, leaving it neck-and-neck with the opposition at 60-60. If an additional person were to leave the coalition, the government could be brought down in a law brought by the Opposition that would disperse the Knesset.
Silman said that she "could not take it anymore," and that she could not continue undermining the Jewish identity of the State of Israel, a reference to a disagreement she had with Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz over allowing chametz into hospitals over Passover.
Netanyahu congratulated Silman on her decision, thanking her "in the name of many people in Israel that waited for this moment."