Knesset

[knes-et]

noun

1. the unicameral parliament of Israel.

Knesset

/ ˈknɛsɪt /

noun

1. the unicameral parliament of Israel

Knesset

1. The parliament of Israel.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Knesset¹

1945–50; < Modern Hebrew kneset, post-Biblical Hebrew kəneseth gathering

Word History and Origins

Origin of Knesset¹

Hebrew, literally: gathering

Example Sentences

“You are committed to this peace, I am committed to this peace and together Mr. President we will achieve this peace,” Netanyahu said, in his own address to the Knesset.

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"Yet even to Iran, whose regime has inflicted so much death on the Middle East, the hand of friendship and cooperation is open," he told the Knesset.

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“Who wants to be the side that prevents him from announcing from the Knesset podium that he deserves a peace prize?” he said.

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Meanwhile, a bill currently in the Israeli Knesset put forth by Benjamin Netanyahu’s communications minister aims to shut down public television and radically expand government control over the country’s independent media and cultural institutions.

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He was speaker of the Knesset, the parliament, from 1999 to 2003 and before that he chaired the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organisation, two venerable Zionist institutions.

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