Avigdor Lieberman appointed chair of Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

The Knesset Arrangements Committee approved the establishment of temporary committees, appointing Avigdor Lieberman as chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and Liran Avishar Ben-Horin as chair of the Finance Committee. Ra'am party will receive a seat on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee for the first time, represented by MK Yoav Segalovitz.

For the first time in the 26th Knesset, Ra'am will receive representation on the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. MK Yoav Segalovich will serve as a member of the sensitive committee, after no representative from Ra'am served on it in the 25th Knesset. The move comes against the backdrop of the shifts in the balance of power in the 26th Knesset and the achievement of a majority by the center-left bloc in the vote on the composition of the Arrangements Committee, which was approved with the support of the Arab factions by a vote of 63 Knesset members to 50 opponents. The Arrangements Committee, headed by MK Roy Folkman from the Yashar faction, is responsible for formulating the composition of the Knesset committees. Segalovich's entry into the committee marks a change from the previous Knesset and illustrates the political significance of the cooperation between the center-left bloc and the Arab factions.