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The historic and at times divisive reign of Benjamin Netanyahu is officially over. On Sunday, Israeli’s parliament voted to approve a new coalition and install former Netanyahu ally Naftali Bennett as Prime Minister sending Netanyahu and the Likud party into the opposition for the first time in twelve years. The final vote was 60-59, with one minister abstaining.
Who is in the Coalition?
The new coalition is composed of eight parties from the left, right, and center of Israel’s political spectrum and includes for the first time ever a representative of Israel’s Arab citizens in the Islamist Ra’am party. The other seven parties represent the many different, competing ideologies of Israeli citizens religious nationalists, secular centrists, and left-wing social democrats.