Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (L) and political strategist Mark Mellman in the Knesset before the swearing in of Israel s 36th government, June 13, 2021. (Yesh Atid)
American communications and strategic adviser Mark Mellman was alone at his Washington DC home on June 2 when the news broke in Ramat Gan, Israel.
From the sixth floor of the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel at around 11 p.m. local time, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid had called then-president Reuven Rivlin and informed him that they had succeeded in forming a government. A photo of the two signing a coalition agreement with Mansour Abbas, head of an Islamist party called Ra’am, and a clip of the two of them talking to the president on the phone soon surfaced on Twitter.
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Israel: la era de Netanyahu finalizó y hay nuevo gobierno
Naftali Bennett llega al poder con una amplia coalición de Gobierno que abarca ocho partidos. Hace 7 Hs
El Parlamento de Israel, la Knesset, aprobó por 60 votos la investidura de
Naftali Bennett del movimiento nacionalista Yamina, como nuevo primer ministro. La reñida votación, que fue rechazada por 59 parlamentarios, puso fin a más de una década de mandato de
Benjamin Netanyahu.
Tras la votación, Netanyahu ha estrechado la mano de Bennett. âJuro ser fiel al Estado de Israel y a sus leyes, a cumplir de buena fe mi función como primer ministro y respetar las resoluciones de la Knessetâ, afirmó Bennett en su investidura.
Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett addresses the Knesset on June 13, 2021 (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)
In a speech constantly interrupted by soon-to-be opposition lawmakers, Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett presented his new “reasonable and responsible” government Sunday afternoon at its swearing-in ceremony at the Knesset, pledging that it would “end a terrible period of hatred among the people of Israel.”
Struggling to speak over the shouts of Knesset members from Likud, Religious Zionism and the ultra-Orthodox parties, Bennett said that his government of right-wing, left-wing, centrist and Islamist parties came together to end two years of political deadlock and “put Israel back on a sane path.”
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