The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee fails to pass a measure to extend the government's ability to issue emergency call-up orders for IDF reservists after Likud MK Amit Halevi unexpectedly voted against the measure. The vote came at the end of a closed-door committee meeting chaired by Likud MK Yuli Edelstein and attended by Defense Minister Israel Katz.

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