Binyamin Netanyahu may even undermine the Supreme Court
, aged 73, was sworn in as Israel’s prime minister on December 29th. But the cabinet that joined him on the front bench of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, is like no other Israeli government that has preceded it.
It took five election campaigns in the space of four years for Mr Netanyahu, widely known as Bibi, finally to secure a solid majority in the Knesset. Following anon November 1st, he has managed to do so thanks to a coalition agreement with far-right nationalist and ultra-religious parties. He has spent much of the past few weeks trying forlornly to convince the Israeli public, as well as Israel’s American supporters, that he will not give his newThis may prove hard.
But this time the centrist parties, which were at the heart of the outgoing government under Yair Lapid, have refused in principle to serve under a prime minister who has been indicted on charges of corruption and bribery, and is still on trial in a Jerusalem court.
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