️🇮🇱 - The Israeli government approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to appoint Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar as interior minister as well, in a move made while Gadi Eisenkot is trying to form a new coalition, which leaves the duration of Sa'ar's term in office uncertain. Sa'ar, who is expected to keep the foreign portfolio as well, will end almost 13 months without an active interior minister and almost 16 months without a permanent appointment since Shas' Moshe Arbel resigned in July 2025 amid ultra-Orthodox recruitment disputes, after which the term of acting minister Yariv Levin will expire on October 20, 2022.
️ At the same time, the vacant position froze statutory ministerial decisions despite the ongoing operations of the ministry, and forces a partial transfer of powers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, including the transfer of powers on January 14, 2026 with the approval of the Knesset. High Court documents detailed critical situations: unresolved humanitarian residency applications involving domestic violence, stalled permits for foreign caregivers at risk of expiring a time-limited wartime re-examination mechanism, 80 trained professionals - 16 border control officials, 64 inspectors - unable to exercise powers, authorities and municipal loans and funding, tax cancellation. Allocations.