Israel’s Knesset has set Tuesday, Nov. 1, as the date for the country’s next general elections.
The Joint Arab List voted with the coalition, resulting in a majority of 57 votes in favor of a Nov. 1 election date. Forty-seven Knesset members voted against the November date.
The Knesset approved in third and final reading a bill to disperse itself on Thursday, which means that Yair Lapid is set to become caretaker prime minister at midnight on Friday. He will replace current Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Bennett, who announced on Wednesday that he will not run in the election, will become alternate prime minister after Yair Lapid becomes the premier.
Ayelet Shaked, Bennett’s long-time political partner, will replace him as the head of the Yamina Party. Shaked has said she would be open to joining Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu in forming a right-wing government.