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On Sunday the “Netanyahu bloc” was defeated in the vote on the composition of the Knesset Arrangements Committee. This is the key committee, the cornerstone, that is responsible for establishing all the other Knesset committees. Until after the formation of a coalition that will establish permanent committees, the arrangements committee sets up temporary committees, which carry out the Knesset’s regular functions and oversee the government. But in accordance with the approach that has guided Likud under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent years – and which holds that no governmental po