Summary of the Winter Conference: During the winter conference, the coalition passed 58 bills on second and third reading, 90 bills on first reading, and 120 bills on preliminary reading.
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The winter conference began on October 19, 2025 and ended on March 31, 2026.
Among the proposals approved for second and third reading:
- Doubling the budget for activities for disabled IDF soldiers and victims of hostilities (Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz)
- Tax benefits for reservists (Finance Minister Smotrich and Hanoch Milbitsky)
- Legal assistance for senior citizens who were injured by a sting (Minister of Justice Levin)
- Al Jazeera Law Preventing Broadcasts from an Entity That Harms State Security (Minister of Communications Kari and Ariel Kellner)
- Expanding eligibility and pension benefit amounts for IDF widows (Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz and Zvika Fogel)
- Removing barriers and facilitating the actions of guardians of people with disabilities and mental health issues (presentation by Malco)
- Ease in the insolvency and economic rehabilitation process (Minister of Justice Levin and Simcha Rothman)
- Preventing employment of teachers who support terrorism and hold degrees from the PA (Amit Halevi and Avichai Boaron)
- Financial assistance package worth half a billion NIS per year for widows and orphans (Defense Minister Israel Katz, Finance Minister Smotrich and Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz)
- Easing admission requirements for students from the reserve forces (Minister of Education Kish, Zvi Sukkot, Kati Sheetrit and Yitzhak Kreuzer)
- Law to terminate UNRWA activities (Energy Minister Eli Cohen, Boaz Bismuth and Limor Son Har Melech)
- Promoting competition in the food and pharmaceutical industries (Yinon Azoulay and Moshe Pesal)
- Arranging the burial of firefighters in military cemeteries (Zvika Fogel, Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz and Osher Shekalim)
- Abolition of the rule of apotropaic clauses in contracts (Minister of Justice Levin)
- Increasing housing supply (Yaakov Asher)
- Protection against dismissal for evacuees, spouses of reservists, and parents who are required to care for their children due to the closure of the education system. (Labor Minister Levin and Michal Waldiger)
Additional laws expected to pass by the end of the session:
- State budget for 2026
- Death Penalty Law for Terrorists (Limor Son Har Melech, Zvika Fogel and Nissim Vaturi)
- Indemnification of employers for social expenses of reservists, relief for going on unpaid leave (Finance Minister Smotrich)
- Tax benefits for Ashkelon, Nof HaGalil, Nahariya and Acre (Nissim Vaturi, Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz, Hanoch Milbitsky and Finance Minister Smotrich)
- Financing motorized wheelchairs for children (Avi Maoz)
A key law that was not approved during the winter conference is the Conscription Law.
Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz: "We are finishing a conference full of action. We have passed dozens of security, economic, social, and other laws. We will continue to work for the citizens of Israel until the government and the coalition reach their end.".
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