Members of the new coalition called it a new beginning.
“This government will work for all the citizens of Israel, those that voted for it and those that didn’t. It will do everything to unite Israeli society,” Lapid, head of the centrist Yesh Atid Party, said.
Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli said Israel “made history.”
“As we always promised you to tell the truth and to do what we said we will do, tonight, we ve succeeded,” she added.
The coalition of parties from right, center, left, and for the first time in Israel’s history, an Arab Islamist party, united around the main goal of bringing down Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is railing against the formation of a new governing coalition that is set to oust him from power, waging an 11th hour effort to pick off enough right-wing lawmakers to deny it a governing majority.Netanyahu took to Twitter to denounce the formation of the coalition by center-left lawmaker Yair Lapid. The prime minister specifically called on old allies now part of the group to defect, specifically.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is railing against the formation of a new governing coalition that is set to oust him from power, waging an 11th hour effort to pick off enough right-wing lawmakers to deny it a governing majority.
“While we await to see how the current situation materializes, we have complete confidence in Israel’s democracy,” said Jewish Federations of North America president and CEO Eric Fingerhut.