Knesset
[knes-et]
- the unicameral parliament of Israel.
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Origin of Knesset
1945–50; < Modern Hebrew kneset, post-Biblical Hebrew kəneseth gathering
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Tibi had previously symbolically spilled water on Prawer Bill in Knesset.
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein chased the MDA officials from the parliament.
Nope, according to Tzachi Hanegbi, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
That's precisely two less than they would need to constitute a majority in the Knesset.
Israel's Political Process Sabotages Peace Efforts, But There Is A Constituency For PeaceMatt Lerner
November 7, 2013
The Knesset approved the first reading of the legislation in June, but with only a three-vote margin.
Why I Joined 775 Rabbinic Colleagues in Opposing the Dispossession of Bedouin IsraelisRabbi Gilah Langner
November 6, 2013
Knesset
Knesseth
- the unicameral parliament of Israel
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Word Origin
Hebrew, literally: gathering
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Word Origin and History for knesset
Knesset
Israeli parliament, 1949, from Mishnaic Hebrew keneseth "gathering, assembly," from stem of Hebrew kanas "he gathered, assembled, collected."
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Knesset
[(knes-et, kuh-nes-et)]
The parliament of Israel.
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