A bill allowing thousands of illegally built homes to be connected to the national power grid passed the Knesset Interior Committee after raising controversy.
The bill introducing term limits of eight years for prime minister proposed by Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar passed its first hurdle on Monday after a pernicious debate.
MK Yulia Malinovsky of Yisrael Beytenu had submitted her own bill to the committee which would allow municipal chief rabbis and deans of Hesder yeshivas to establish their own conversion courts.
Sources involved in the process said they did not feel they needed to hurry, because the agency's board of governors will not be meeting until February.
In a victory for the opposition, the Knesset plenum voted on Wednesday to establish a committee that will probe the police's conduct during Ahuvia Sandak's death.
