JERUSALEM, May 14 — After more than 500 days of political deadlock, three inconclusive elections in a year and finally an unprecedented power-sharing deal between rivals, Israel was due to swear in a new government today. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former military chief Benny Gantz...
An Israeli protester, wearing a protective mask and standing with others distanced two metres apart from each other due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, stands with a megaphone while another holds a sign showing the faces of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-rival Benny Gantz with a caption in Hebrew reading “Israeli ashamed” attends a demonstration in Rabin Square in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on May 9, 2020, calling for “a quality government” before the formation...
In a letter sent to President Reuven Rivlin late yestersday, Netanyahu, a right-winger in power since 2009, announced he had formed a government. Writing in the Yediot Aharonot newspaper, political columnist Ben-Dror Yemini said the coalition was “inflated” and “wasteful”, pointing to the record 34 cabinet seats, a number that could grow to 36.The large cabinet, along with additional funds to accomodate the new position of alternate prime minister, have prompted criticism as Israel seeks to rehabilitate an economy brutalised by the coronavirus pandemic.
The plan, categorically rejected by the Palestinians, gives the green light from Washington for Israel to annex Jewish settlements and other strategic territory in the occupied West Bank.
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