Israel, Change Bloc leaders announce agreed nomination for Knesset presidency
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Change Bloc leaders announced names for key roles in the 26th Knesset, including Matan Kahana as speaker of parliament and Avigdor Liberman as head of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
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The leaders of the Change Bloc have defined the key positions in view of the inauguration of the 26th Knesset.
The leaders of the Change Bloc, Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, Yair Golan, Avigdor Liberman and Yair Lapid, announced the names agreed to cover key roles in the 26th Knesset, which will take office this afternoon.
The candidate for the presidency of parliament is Matan Kahana, from Eisenkot's Yashar party, former minister in the Bennett-Lapid government. The nomination to lead the Commission for Parliamentary Structures - responsible for dividing the permanent commissions between the various parties - is Roy Folkman, also from the Yashar party; at the head of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Commission, Avigdor Liberman, leader of Israel Beitenu. For the Finance Commission, the candidate is Liran Avishar Ben-Horin, new deputy for the Beyachad party of Bennett and Lapid, and former director general of the Ministry of Communications.
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