Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party on Friday said it would prevent any bills from progressing through the Ministerial Committee for Legislation next week, in response to the Blue and White party’s support of a bill banning gay conversion therapy by psychotherapists, in defiance of the coalition’s position.

Likud Minister David Amsalem, who is the liaison between the Knesset and government and who holds veto power at the committee, informed the committee chair, Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn, that “in light of the breach of the agreement reached…on the ‘conversion law,’ no bills will be advanced at the committee this week, except for urgent laws related to coronavirus.”

He added: “Cooperation between the parties of the coalition is built on trust, when this is broken it is difficult to continue working together. This week’s incident was particularly serious.”

A Blue and White source told the Walla news site in response: “Most bills on the agenda for next week are Likud’s. If Amsalem doesn’t want to advance them, that’s his right.”

Nissenkorn responded that Likud had broken trust first, breaking with the coalition agreement earlier this month by supporting the formation of a state commission of inquiry to probe Supreme Court judges’ alleged conflicts of interests, which was opposed by Blue and White. That move was ultimately rejected by the parliament, despite Likud’s support. Read more via Times of Israel