National Union Knesset Member Uri Ariel is circulating a petition that requires 40 signatures to call a special Knesset session with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on the planned Annapolis, Maryland summit. The Shas and Pensioners parties and several members of the Prime Minister's Kadima party have called on him to delay the summit.
Shas has communicated to Prime Minister Olmert that is not a part of the plan to divide Jerusalem and that doing so would force the religious party to leave the coalition.