Israeli parliament’s vote of confidence in the new government pushes Netanyahu aside, installing another right-wing leader, Naftali Bennett, in his place.
In an era-ending vote, Israeli lawmakers on Sunday approved a new government, sweeping aside the country’s longest-serving leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and installing a fellow right-wing nationalist, Naftali Bennett, as the country’s new leader.
includes parties from Israel’s left and center, and also marks a historic first: participation in the ruling coalition by an Islamist party representing Palestinian citizens of Israel.Because of fundamental disagreements over the potential creation of a Palestinian state alongside the Israeli one, the government is likely to try instead to concentrate on domestic issues, including passing a national budget and embarking on an economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption, first became prime minister for three years in the 1990s and had held the top office again since 2009. That has made him the, surpassing the longevity even of the country’s first prime minister and primary founder, David Ben Gurion. Even so, the outgoing prime minister took a scorched-earth approach as his rivals were about to prevail. Netanyahu used his last speech to the Knesset as prime minister to unleash a bitter tirade at not only the rivals who ousted him, but at the Biden administration.“An Israeli prime minister needs to be able to say ‘no’ to the leader of the world’s superpower,” he declared from the well of the Knesset, referring to his own vehement opposition to U.S.
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