Jerusalem – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to submit a bill allowing all Israeli citizens to vote abroad. “It will contribute to the connection and to Israel’s strength,” Netanyahu said during a Likud faction meeting on Monday.
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The prime minister also said he would ask the government to approve a national transportation plan, which will promote railways bringing the periphery closer to central Israel.
If Knesset approves the bill allowing Israelis to vote abroad, it will implement one of the clauses included in the coalition agreement signed between Yisrael Beiteinu and the Likud.
According to the clause, “The government will form a governmental bill allowing the vote of Israelis who are abroad on Election Day, under conditions and criteria agreed upon by all the coalition members. The bill will be submitted to the Knesset within a year after the government’s establishment.”
Yisrael Beiteinu’s chairman, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, also addressed the new bill on Monday as one of the main issues he plans to promote.
Speaking in a press conference at the Knesset, Lieberman said, “There are many things in the coalition agreement that we plan to implement. The law allowing Israelis abroad to vote will be voted on. We will also present the conversion law. I promise to keep 100% of the promises we made to our voters.”
In the USA you can also vote on Election day overseas and you can also send in absentee ballots !! Kol Hakovod the Prime Minister Netanyahu for giving all those that thier hearts are in Eretz Yisroel but they are overseas to be able to vote !!!