PNN – In a report, Israeli Channel 12 TV revealed a secret plan by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dissolve the Knesset (Israeli parliament) and hold early elections in September 2026.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the Israeli media outlet announced in this report that Netanyahu intends to set the election date in a way that will be far from the passage of the controversial law exempting him from military service and will be held before the third anniversary of Operation October 7 (Al-Aqsa Storm), an event that is still an open wound for Israeli public opinion (the regime).
Under this plan, Netanyahu wants to pass a law exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service in September 2025, an issue that polls show is highly unpopular. With this timing, he is trying to reduce possible damage to public opinion by creating a one-year gap between the passage of the law and the holding of the elections, and to have the necessary time to engineer the electoral atmosphere.
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In a related development, Netanyahu’s Likud party yesterday (Wednesday) dismissed Yuli Edelstein, the head of the Knesset’s Foreign Policy and Security Committee, and replaced him with Boaz Bismuth with a majority of 29 votes.
Edelstein’s dismissal is being assessed as a result of his open opposition to the military service exemption law; a move that was taken in order to satisfy the Haredi parties and consolidates the current fragile coalition.
Edelstein noted during the voting session that this was not the first time he had been in the minority and referred to his previous opposition to the Gaza withdrawal plan over the past two decades.
Previously, he had proposed an alternative plan for the military service law, suggesting that exemptions be accompanied by personal and institutional penalties and that recruitment targets be increased with strict monitoring and enforcement mechanisms.
Analysts believe that these actions are part of Netanyahu’s meticulous electoral planning to maintain power; a plan in which security concerns, social protests, and domestic political pressures are tied to his personal calculations.