Parties supporting Netanyahu have decided not to attend the meeting of the Arrangements Committee that will convene tomorrow during the fast of the 17th of Tammuz.
MK Yariv Levin, chairman of the Likud, said, "Since the formation of the government, the coalition has been operating in a predatory and unprecedented manner, trampling on all the usual guidelines by which the Knesset has operated for many years. The attempt to make a decision regarding the composition of the Knesset committees without real negotiations with the opposition is fundamentally wrong. Setting a meeting on such a significant and deliberately controversial issue on a fast day is crossing yet another red line and a complete break from the usual practices of the Knesset. The opposition will not attend the meeting to be held tomorrow, and will act to ensure that Knesset committees are divided fairly and in accordance with the principles that have prevailed throughout the years."