Israel's parliament rejected early on Thursday a preliminary vote to dissolve itself, the Knesset said in a statement, after an agreement was reached regarding a dispute over conscription.The vote, which could have been a first step leading to an early election that polls show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would lose,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could see himself booted from power as Knesset faces the first vote to dissolve parliament on Wednesday over frustrations of the protracted war in Gaza.

This gives Netanyahu’s ruling coalition further time to resolve its worst political crisis yet—the introduction of a new military conscription bill—and avoid a ballot.