3 years, 10 months ago

End of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu era may be near

Media reports say opposition leader Yair Lapid close to establishing a coalition that would end Netanyahu’s 12-year reign as prime minister. Israel was gripped by political drama on Sunday over the possible imminent end of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s record run as the country’s leader. After four inconclusive parliamentary elections in two years, a 28-day mandate for opposition leader Yair Lapid to form a new government runs out on Wednesday, and media reports said he was close to putting together a coalition that would end Netanyahu’s 12-year stretch as prime minister. “The anti-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu government of change is still not an accomplished fact,” political columnist Yossi Verter wrote in the left-wing Haaretz newspaper on Sunday.

Al Jazeera

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