חוק תאגידי מים וביוב (תיקון מס' 19), התשפ"ו-2026Water and Sewage Corporations Law (Amendment No. 19), 2026 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Amendment postpones to 1 January 2027 the determining date, which is the date by which regional water and sewerage corporations that will provide water and sewerage services to multiple local authorities must be established. Starting from the determining date, a water and sewerage corporation and a local authority will not provide water and sewerage services to consumers except through a regional corporation, provided that no exemption from the obligation to establish a regional corporation has been granted in accordance with the conditions set out in the Law. In addition, and in accordance with the postponement of the determining date, the Amendment postpones the timetables by which a local authority or corporation, as the case may be, must carry out each of the stages of establishing a regional corporation, such that they will apply starting from 1 September 2026.

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What was said in the plenum

The bill postpones by an additional year, until 1 January 2027, the determining date by which water and sewage companies are required to merge into regional corporations, in order to allow the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure to complete the formulation of a new policy for the structure of the municipal water sector. The actual debate barely addressed the content of the law itself, and instead focused mostly on other topics - including reform of consumption prices, disagreements concerning the Supreme Court, tax debts of fallen soldiers' families, and a sharp political clash between coalition and opposition members.

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An automatic summary of the plenum transcripts: the debate on the bill at every reading it was voted on. Arguments are given as the speakers made them; this is not an assessment. The list of speakers comes from the transcript, without a model. Transcripts of the sittings: 1, 2

Reservations to the second reading

4 reservations were filed: proposed changes to the text the committee brought to the second and third reading.

The reservations submitted by the Yesh Atid group were intended to postpone the determining date and the law's effective date by a year, and to change the wording of the definition of the determining date.

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By faction

• Yesh Atid opposition · 4 reservations · 24 members

A joint reservation counts for every faction whose members filed it.

Asked to speak: Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu), Oded Forer (Yisrael Beytenu), Evgeny Sova (Yisrael Beytenu), Sharon Nir (Yisrael Beytenu), Yulia Malinovsky (Yisrael Beytenu), Hamad Amar (Yisrael Beytenu), Ayman Odeh (Hadash–Ta'al), Ahmad Tibi (Hadash–Ta'al), Aida Touma Sliman (Hadash–Ta'al), Ofer Cassif (Hadash–Ta'al), Samir Bin Said (Hadash–Ta'al)

Proposers and reservation numbers are extracted automatically from the committee version, and the count is checked against the numbers printed in it. The descriptions are an automatic summary. Committee version for the second and third reading (PDF)