The new government has a razor-thin majority
The new government - an unprecedented coalition of ideologically divergent political parties drawn from the Right, the Left, and the Centre, along with an Arab party - has a razor-thin majority of 60-59 in a 120-member house.
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Netanyahu holds the record of being longest-serving Israeli PM
The approval of the new government by the Knesset ended 12 years of uninterrupted rule by Netanyahu, who holds the record of being the longest-serving Prime Minister in the country's history.
Having served in the position earlier between 1996 and 1999, Netanyahu last year surpassed the record held by one of the Jewish state's founding leaders, David Ben-Gurion.