Kadima has yet to respond but at the time of this report, the opposition leader is moving ahead with a planned no-confidence motion on Monday, despite the fact Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will not be in the country.

The acceptable practice is that no-confidence motions are put on hold when the prime minister is abroad. Coalition officials have informed the appropriate Kadima MKs of this fact, that the prime minister will be abroad, but Kadima has yet to pull the no-confidence motion from the Knesset agenda.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)