Israel's Netanyahu appears to edge toward victory after vote
World | November 02, 2022 16:42 ISTInitial indications showed Netanyahu was headed back to the premiership with a majority in the country's 120-seat parliament.
Initial indications showed Netanyahu was headed back to the premiership with a majority in the country's 120-seat parliament.
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Israel's newly elected Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday that he was looking forward to working with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s record 12-year run as Israel’s prime minister ended on Sunday with parliament approving a new “government of change” led by nationalist Naftali Bennett.
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Naftali Bennett is a religious Jew who made millions in the mostly secular hi-tech sector; a champion of the settlement movement who lives in a Tel Aviv suburb
The vote, capping a stormy parliamentary session, ended a two-year cycle of political paralysis in which the country held four deadlocked elections. Those votes focused largely on Netanyahu’s divisive rule and his fitness to remain in office while on trial for corruption charges.
Benjamin Netanyahu says he is the victim of a “deep state” conspiracy. He speaks in apocalyptic terms when talking about the country without his leadership.
Benjamin Netanyahu has been the most dominant player in Israeli politics over the past three decades — serving as Prime Minister since 2009 in addition to an earlier term in the late 1990s.
Naftali Bennett, leader of the small hardline Yamina party, set the stage for a series of steps that could push Benjamin Netanyahu and his dominant Likud party into the oppositio.
Israel continued to pound Hamas targets in Gaza with airstrikes, while Palestinian militants bombarded Israel with rocket fire throughout the day.
US President Joe Biden on Monday voiced support for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in a call with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City flattened three buildings and killed at least 42 people Sunday, medics said, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled the fourth war between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza would rage on despite international efforts to broker a cease-fire.
Citing local media, The Times of Israel reported that three synagogues and numerous shops have been set on fire in Lod, and dozens of cars have been set alight.
Benjamin Netanyahu failed to persuade Bennett to join him in a power-sharing agreement that would have seen the pair take turns as prime minister.
Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party had won 30 seats in the general election in March, but Netanyahu could not muster enough coalition partners to command a majority of at least 61 seats in the 120-member Knesset, the Israeli parliament
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appeared in court for the resumption of his corruption trial.
After three previous inconclusive elections, Benjamin Netanyahu had been hoping for a decisive victory.
Israel general election: The elections were called barely seven months after the last government was formed after the Likud and Blue and White party failed to agree on a budget by a December 23 deadline.
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