Israel’s Parliament Votes in Government That Boots Out Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister and the leader of the Likud party, waits to speak at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel, on Sunday, June 13, 2021. Netanyahu’s record-setting run as Israeli leader approached a precipice Sunday as lawmakers prepared to approve or reject the opposition’s proposed government, a coalition that runs the gamut of Israeli politics but united in the desire to oust him and end more than two years of political turmoil.
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Yaacov Benmeleh, Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) -- Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year run in power was terminated Sunday after Israel’s parliament approved the opposition’s proposed government.
Lawmakers voted 60 to 59 with one abstention to install Jewish nationalist Naftali Bennett as prime minister. Under a power-sharing arrangement Bennett is to hand the reins in August 2023 to the centrist Yair Lapid.
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