The Knesset will vote on Monday on the Mofaz Bill, which will allow seven MKs to quit their parties yet keep their parliamentary posts. The bill was initiated by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in an attempt to squash the power of Tzipi Livni’s competing Kadima party by allowing its members to his Likud party. The law, if passed, would allow four “rebels” of the Labor Party to defect, despite Labor’s signing a Coalition agreement with the Likud.
MK Yisrael Hasson (Kadima) has expressed his ambivalence towards the bill in which even a quarter of his party’s members could leave.