Speaker Yuli Edelstein had held the job since 2013 and kept his job throughout the interim Knessets of 2019. He refused to leave this time and shut down the body as soon as it was sworn in. Edelstein proposed that left and right coalitions hold equal numbers of members in the parliamentary committees with Likud chairpersons, but the opposition refused. They then went to the courts to force the assembly to reopen, in which they were successful.
