{"id":263060,"date":"2026-01-29T04:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263060\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:34:07","slug":"israels-2026-budget-survives-knessets-first-reading-as-netanyahu-faces-potential-snap-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263060\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s 2026 budget survives Knesset&#8217;s first reading as Netanyahu faces potential snap vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Snap vote<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">If the budget fails to pass the Knesset in the March votes, early elections will be held within three months.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity, said previously that holding elections now would be a &#8220;mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Netanyahu&#8217;s current term began with a controversial judicial overhaul plan that sparked months of mass protests, with tens of thousands of Israelis taking to the streets almost daily.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Opposition figures and families of captives also accused him of prolonging the genocide in Gaza for his own political survival.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Israel killed over 71,600 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded over 171,400 in its genocide in Gaza since October 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snap vote If the budget fails to pass the Knesset in the March votes, early elections will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-263060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}