Example sentences for: knesset

How can you use “knesset” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In an editorial Thursday, the Jerusalem Post called for the adoption of the "Birthright" initiative, proposed by Knesset member Yossi Beilin, under which every American Jewish boy or girl would, on turning 17, be given an all-expenses-paid, three-week trip to Israel.

  • But Deputy Knesset Speaker Shevach Weiss (Labor), himself a Holocaust survivor, said he welcomed Arafat's visit to the Washington museum, because it would be "a slap in the face of all Holocaust deniers."

  • In an editorial Monday, the Israeli daily Ha'aretz called for the resignation of President Ezer Weizman after his office confirmed a newspaper report that between 1988 and 1993, when he was a member of the Knesset and a government minister, he received gifts of money totaling $453,000 from French millionaire Edward Sarusi.

  • Some right-wing Knesset members have called for an end to the airstrikes: If the West intervenes on behalf of an independence-seeking ethnic minority in Kosovo, one asked, "couldn't it happen here, too, in a different variation today or tomorrow?"

  • It also offered a foretaste of what was billed as an optimistic speech to the Knesset Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.


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