Minister Itamar Ben Gvir did a hafrashat challa event for the success of the right wing bloc and for Tali Gotliv to be appointed Minister of Justice...

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Back in 2021 Gideon Saar proposed an amendment to the current law that would also prevent anyone under indictment from being Prime Minister. Saar's proposal became known as Chok HaNeesham - the Law of the Indicted. I am not sure what happened to Saar's proposal - it seems to have just never been dealt with due to the multiple elections and chaos happening in those years.

MK Avigdor Lieberman has spoken out today (and maybe others have as well, not sure) that after the elections, assuming he and his potential coalition partners obtain some sort of victory in the elections, will immediately move to replace Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana with their own representative (nothing wrong with this move, it has been done before), and then immediately pass Law of the Indicted, Chok HaNeesham, which would then prevent Netanyahu from running again for Prime Minister (at least until his court cases are finished in his favor with an exoneration of all the main charges) in future elections.

Whether it is a good law or not I don't know, though I think it is. Just like someone indicted should not be any other type of minister, he or she should also not be Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister's attention should be focused on running the country, not on defending himself in court. Even being a good law, it should not be used to ban Netanyahu from running, at least one election forward. Passing this would be a law targeted at someone specifically which should always be out of bounds. If they do pass it, I would expect and hope that Netanyahu would be allowed to run in at least the elections after that (and I am saying this as someone who no longer supports Netanyahu for Prime Minister), though maybe not in elections after the next one. We cannot pass laws targeting specific people and we cannot change the rules in the middle of the game. If after the coming elections this law gets passed, it should only go into effect after the next elections after these.

It would though be fun to see Gideon Saar's law passed to hurt Netanyahu after seeing how Saar has changed his poisitions the past 2 years....

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  -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

when he says things like this (he made similar style predictions regarding the draft of Haredim before he decided to not pass the law they were working on) I sometimes feel like I want him to win just so we can see how his words play out, or not, in reality

יש עסקה. את הכסף שלך אשמח שתתרום לאברכים הממיתים עצמם באוהלה של תורה, וחיים בעוני מחפיר יותר מאי פעם.

— מוטי לייטנר Moti Leitner (@MotiLeitner) October 12, 2026

Translation:

first, background of what this is in response to:

impressive that he did not just ignore the whole thing... Rivlin is clearly trying to protect the old guard from losing votes (whether Leitner actually gets in taking away many votes from the original Haredi parties or whether he does not get in and "burns" those votes...) and one classic approach would be to ignore. Leitner went out on a limb here...

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  -- Minister of Finance Betzalel Smotritch, speaking at the Arutz7 conference

harsh words there...

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