Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid Elections on March 23 Fails in Knesset Vote
The Knesset voted down a bill in an overnight session between Monday and Tuesday, December 21-22, which would have postponed a Tuesday-night deadline to approve Israel’s 2020 state budget, after far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kahol Lavan Chief Benny Gantz failed to reach a compromise to avert what would be Israel’s fourth election in…