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Titolo: Composizione definitiva Knesset

da haaretz
Soldiers' votes give Kadima, Likud and Meretz more seats 
 
By Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondent 
 
Kadima, Likud and Meretz picked up one more seat each on Thursday,
according to final results of vote counting in the wake of Tuesday's
Knesset election. 
Ra'am-Ta'al, Yisrael Beiteinu and Shas have lost one seat each. 
This guarantees Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert a majority among
Zionist parties in the Knesset for his plan to withdraw from the West
Bank. This majority would be made up of Kadima, Labor, the Pensioners'
Party and Meretz. 
 
The majority of the final votes to be counted were from Israel Defense
Forces soldiers in mandatory, reserve and career service, from prison
wardens, prisoners, hospital inpatients, handicapped and foreign
diplomats posted overseas.
With the final vote count in, the Likud's Yisrael Katz, Kadima's Yoel
Hasson and Meretz's Avshalom Vilan will enter the Knesset in place of
Ra'am-Ta'al's Abbas Zakhour, Yisrael Beiteinu's David Issac-Rotem and
Shas's Maroi Mazor Bahaineh.
According to the final results, Kadima now has 29 seats, Labor has 20,
Shas and Likud have 12 each, Yisrael Beiteinu has 11, National
Union-National Religious Party has nine, Pensioners' Party has seven,
United Torah Judaism has six, Meretz five, Ra'am-Ta'al three, Hadash
three and Balad three.
It is already clear that almost a third of the new Knesset's members -
39 MKs - will be new to the legislature. The greatest number of
freshman MKs will be from Kadima (10), followed by Yisrael Beiteinu
(eight), and the Pensioners Party (all seven MKs). Likud, National
Union-National Religious Party and Balad will have no new MKs. In
Meretz, Yossi Beilin is returning to the Knesset after an absence of
one term.
There will be only 16 women in the Knesset, down from 18 elected in
2003. 
Kadima will have the most women (six), followed by Labor (five). The
National Union-NRP, Arab parties and ultra-Orthodox parties have no
women 
representatives.
A majority of MKs in the new Knesset are of Ashkenazi origin: 73
compared to 34 MKs of Middle Eastern or North African origin. The
remaining 13 representatives are Arabs, up from 10 in the previous
Knesset.
The 17th Knesset will have 34 religious and ultra-Orthodox MKs -
nearly 30 percent of the legislature - compared to 30 in the 16th
Knesset.
Fifteen percent of the MKs (18) hold Ph.D degrees or the title
Professor. 
Kadima boasts six, Labor three, and Balad and Hadash have two each.
Fourteen MKs were previously senior officers in the security forces.
Among them are an ex-chief of staff (Shaul Mofaz of Kadima), a former
deputy chief of staff (Matan Vilnai of Labor), two former Shin Bet
chiefs (Kadima's Avi Dichter and Labor's Ami Ayalon), and a former
Mossad chief (Labor's Danny Yatom).
Fifteen MKs are new or relatively new immigrants who immigrated 15
years ago or more, like Avigdor Lieberman, but who are still
considered olim by the public. There will be only eight MKs who live
in settlements - four from the National Union-NRP, three from Yisrael
Beiteinu and one from Kadima. Only two MKs live on kibbutzim (Haim
Oron of Meretz and Orit Noked of Labor), and one on a moshav (Labor's
Shalom Simhon).
 
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E' in discussione su it.news.gruppi la RFD 
di it.politica.internazionale moderato

 The 17th Knesset will have 34 religious
e non Rosi Bindi. Che schifo di paese teocratico. Fa bene Diliberto a non 
andarci.