The three-mandate Bayit HaYehudi Party signed a coalition agreement with Likud. The party will receive the science portfolio, which will go to the party’s leader, Rabbi Dr. Daniel Hershkowitz. The party will also hold the chair of the Knesset Education Committee for a third of the government’s term as well as the chair of the Knesset Child Rights Committee.

The coalition agreement also accommodates the party’s request to permit an MK to resign from Knesset and permit another person on the party roster to enter in his place. This is to permit Hershkowitz to resign, remaining a cabinet minister but not an MK, and clearing the way for the fourth man on the party list, veteran MK Nissan Slomianski.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)