Smotrich is being removed from the Knesset floor for disturbing the speech of Naftali Bennett ahead of the vote on the new government.
Not just Smotrich - also a few other MKs were removed from the Knesset floor for refusing to stop shouting and allow Bennett to speak.
Several Likud MKs continue shouting while Bennett starts to speak. They've yet to be kicked out, but... they might be soon.
The Knesset speaker is still from Likud, Yair Levin (for today). But he is certainly growing impatient with the interrupting from his own parties, and is threatening some of their removal.
They haven't stopped shouting.
The shouting will not end...
Likud MK Shlomo Karhi was escorted from the Knesset for refusing to stop heckling.
Bennett is starting to lose his cool at the constant nonstop shouting and heckling.
Yelling about the incitement against him including from Litzman recently.
Likud MK May Golan is the latest to be forcibly removed from the Knesset floor for refusing to stop shouting during Bennett's speech.
Now Shas MK Moshe Abutbul is ousted from the plenum.
And Shas MK Michael Malkieli is out now.
There's going to be half the Knesset empty by the time Bennett finishes this speech at this rate.
Before he was kicked out, Smotrich held up photos of victims of terror (no props or photos are allowed on the Knesset floor, and he obviously knows this).
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The tragedy that unfolded overnight in Meron is horrific, senseless and, most devastatingly, completely avoidable.
As Israel mourns it should not refuse to also take a long hard look at the failings that led to this horror.
I went to Meron on Lag B'Omer once, when I was a young, dumb student, and it was billed as the once-in-a-lifetime thrill everyone should experience (and school-sanctioned).
While I know that others find it a spiritual experience, I hated just about every minute of it.
Crowded doesn't begin to describe it. I was pushed and shoved at every turn, confused at where I was supposed to be headed, easily separated from my friends and overwhelmed.
I left in the early hours of the morning feeling battered and vowing to never repeat the experience.
Is there going to be another Israeli election in 2021? Who knows.
But what will happen sometime soon is the election of the next president of Israel, since President Reuven Rivlin's term expires in July.
The election must be held by June 9. But no date has been set yet.
The president of Israel is elected by the 120 members of Knesset, who were only recently sworn in.
The date of the election is set by the Knesset speaker.
The current Knesset Speaker is Yariv Levin of Likud. How much longer will he hold the job? Unclear.
Who is even running for the job?
Officially... very few people.
Most of the people considered to be serious contenders have yet to officially throw their hats in the ring. They will likely wait until the election date is set.
Today I want to tell you a story you probably haven't heard before. It's a personal story, but it also reveals some aspects of Holocaust history that you may have never known.
Thanks for listening.
My great grandfather, Paul Holzer, was born in Germany in the late 19th century.
He served in the German Army during World War I, received his doctorate and his rabbinic ordination in the 1920s, and served as a congregational rabbi in Hamburg.
On the day Kristallnacht began in 1938, he was warned not to go to the synagogue where he served as rabbi.
He ignored the warning and went anyway.
He was arrested by the Nazis that day and was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany.