Israel’s parliament dissolves, sets 5th election in 4 years

Israel’s parliament voted Thursday to dissolve itself and send the country to the polls in November for the fifth time in less than four years.
Yair Lapid, Israel’s foreign miner and architect of the outgoing coalition government, will become the country’s caretaker prime miner just after midnight on Friday. He will be the 14th person to hold that office, taking over from Naftali Bennett, Israel’s shortest serving prime miner.
The government collapsed just over a year after it was formed in a horic move that saw longtime leader Benjamin Netanyahu ousted after 12 years in power a coalition of ideologically diverse parties, the first to include an Arab faction.
The motion to dissolve passed with 92 lawmakers in favour, and none opposing, after days of bickering coalition and opposition lawmakers over the date of new elections and other last minute legislation.
New elections will be held on November 1.
The move brings a formal end to a political experiment in which eight parties from across the Israeli spectrum tried to find common ground after a period of prolonged gridlock in which the country held four elections in two years.