Following a series of debates, the special committee headed by MK Miki Zohar (Likud) approved for its second and third readings a bill proposing to lift the limit on the number of ministers and deputy ministers the prime minister is allowed to appoint.
 
Should the proposed amendment no. 8 to Basic Law: the Government pass, it would cancel the 2013 law limiting the number of ministers in a government to 18 (not including the prime minister) and the number of deputy ministers to four. The law had already been suspended after the 2015 election, when the government passed a temporary measure allowing three more ministers to be appointed. The proposed amendment would fully cancel the law. The last government had 21 ministers.
 
Eight MKs voted for the measure: Committee Chairman Zohar, Ariel Kallner (Likud), Nir Barkat (Likud), Hava-Etty Atia (Likud), Osnat Hila Mark (Likud), Yitzhak Pindrus (United Torah Judaism), Michael Malchieli (Shas) and Mordhay Yogev (United Right).
 
Six MKs voted against the bill: Miki Haimovich (Blue and White), Yoray Lahav Hertzanu (Blue and White), Eitan Ginzburg (Blue and White), Michal Rozin (Meretz), Osama Saadi (Hadash-Ta’al) and Abd Al Hakeem Haj Yahya (Ra’am-Balad).