The Knesset plenum approved the party funding law early Friday morning, incorporating a clause to dissolve the 25th Knesset ahead of the upcoming election period.

The measure passed with 62 votes in favor and none against.

"We are completing a four year term, we have passed nine budgets, hundreds of laws," said Coalition whip Ofir Katz ahead of the bill's passing.

Dissolving the Knesset ends the current term and launches the election process, with Israelis set to vote at the end of October for a new government.

After the vote, Knesset speaker Amir Ohana spoke to the plenum.

"I think it is fair to say that this was the most challenging Knesset in the institution's history," he stated.

Knesset served 'most difficult war in the country's history' says Ohana

"It witnessed protests of various kinds and served during the longest and most difficult war in the country's history. It stood alongside the bereaved families, the residents evacuated from the north and south, the wounded and those suffering from combat trauma, and the families of the hostages, whose photographs remained in the Knesset plenum for most of its term, until every last hostage was returned."

He continued, "We are entering an election campaign that will naturally be characterized by sharper positions and a struggle between competing ideas. However, I hope that we will return here soon and remember that, despite all our disagreements, we are not enemies, God forbid, but partners, even when we are rivals, and that we are all members of one people and one country."

In the closing days of the session, lawmakers passed an extensive set of bills on security, national memorial, and social matters.

Among the final measures was a first-reading bill permitting ambulance transport for women in labor and allowing the National Insurance Institute to collaborate with more groups for maternity services.

Lawmakers also gave final approval to the Law for the Remembrance of the Massacre and the Commemoration of Heroism on Simchat Torah, October 7 2023.

The Law for the Establishment of a Center to Commemorate Rabbi Nachman of Breslov advanced in its first reading, and the Negev Development Authority Law passed its final readings.

Torah study and extension of mandatory military service

One of the most debated measures was a law backed by ultra-Orthodox parties that designates Torah study as a core value in the Basic Law, which critics say promotes draft avoidance despite the IDF's serious personnel shortages.

Afterward, a temporary bill extended mandatory military service to 32 months to help the IDF meet its staffing requirements amid ongoing security demands.

The move intensified political and public criticism regarding the Torah study law's shielding of haredi draft avoidance.

Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman charged the coalition with hypocrisy in a late-Thursday post on X.

"The hypocrisy of the coalition screams to the heavens," Liberman wrote. "Those same ultra-Orthodox parties that just this week led a bill preventing the arrest of draft dodgers voted today in favor of extending the mandatory service of IDF soldiers who have been fighting bravely since October 7 on four fronts."