The coalition government that replaced Netanyahu stretched from the left of the Israeli political spectrum to the far-right. It even included Ra’am, an Islamist party linked to the Muslim Brotherhood – the first Arab-Israeli party to serve in a government of the Jewish state. The sole unifying principle for the coalition partners was a shared determination to get Netanyahu out of power. Even so, the new government could only muster a parliamentary majority of one. Netanyahu, although on trial for corruption, remained outwardly confident that he would soon return to the prime minister’s office.
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