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Under the deal, PM Benjamin Netanyahu will serve for another 18 months.
Israel has sworn in a unity government after the longest political crisis in the country’s history, and in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Under a power-sharing deal agreed in April, right-wing PM Benjamin Netanyahu will serve for another 18 months.
His centrist competing Benny Gantz will function as deputy PM, prior to taking over.
The 2 politicians have consented to push ahead with a questionable strategy to annex part of the occupied West Bank area as early as 1 July.
Palestinian leaders turn down the authenticity of the relocation.
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Benny Gantz had initially promised never ever to sign up with a government led by Mr Netanyahu.
The power-sharing arrangement ends more than a year of political deadlock in which three elections were held however stopped working to yield an arrangement.
The development of the new federal government comes days before Mr Netanyahu will go on trial on bribery and scams charges – a very first for a sitting prime minister in Israel. “The public wants a unity government, and that’s what the public i