In an unprecedented action, the right wing Herut party demanded today an urgent closed-door session of the plenum of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to discuss “the reasons and circumstances” in the resignation of Brigadier General Chaim Laskcy as Israel Chief of Staff.
Under Knesset rules, when such a request bears the signature of at least ten Knesset members, as this one did, it requires automatically a closed door session for a procedural discussion on whether there should be an open or closed debate on the issue.
Menachem Bader, the Herut deputy who offered the motion, said the move followed a refusal by the chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Commission, without taking a vote, to permit a committee discussion on Gen. Laskov’s resignation. The deputy added that if the Knesset rejected his closed-session proposal, he would make all his statements on the issue in open session.
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