Who is the new Prime Minister of Israel?
No:1. A motley alliance of Israeli parties on June 13
ousted Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving Prime Minister, and
formed a new government in a seismic shift in the country’s turbulent politics.
No:2. Naftali Bennet, a right-wing Jewish nationalist
and former tech millionaire was to take over at the helm of the eight-party
bloc, united only by their shared disdain for the hawkish right-wing leader
known as Bibi.
No:3. Netanyahu, 71, in a typically combatic style,
vowed shortly before his defeat that “if it is our destiny to be in the
opposition we will do so with our heads high until we take down this bad
government and return to lead the country our way.”
No:4. Beloved as ‘King Bibi’ by his right wing
supporters and condemned as the ‘crime minister’ by his critics, Netanyahu has
long been the dominant and increasingly divisive, figure in Israeli politics.
No:5. But on June 13, 2021, a vote in the Knesset
legislature following weeks of intense drama ended his government with a
razor-their majority of 60 to 59 in the 120-seat chamber.
No:6. Bennett, 49, in a Knesset speech before the
vote, promised the new government, a coalition of ideologically divergent
parties, “represents all of Israel”.
No:7. He said the country after four inconclusive
elections in under two years, had been thrown “into a maelstrom of hatred and
infighting.”
No: 8. “The time has come for different leaders, from
all parts of the population, to stop, to stop this madness”, he said, to angry
shouts of ‘liar’, and ‘criminal’ from rightwing opponents.
No:9. Bennet, a former defence minister under
Netanyahu, vowed to keep Israel safe from Iran, promising that “Israel won’t
let Iran have “nuclear weapons”, a goal the Islamic republic denies pursuing.
No:10. The diverse anti-Netanyahu bloc was cobbled
together by the secular centrist Yavi Lapid, a former TV-presenter.
No:11. Lapid, 57, is to serve as foreign minister for
the next two years before taking over from Bennet.
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