The Knesset will vote to approve a new government, formed by opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, by June 14, speaker Yariv Levin said on Monday.
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Opposition leader Yair Lapid has cobbled together a cross-partisan coalition poised to unseat Netanyahu, who has had a 12-year run as prime minister. The deal, announced on Thursday, includes a rotating premiership between Lapid and the head of the right-wing party Yamina, Naftali Bennett.
"A session of parliament to establish the government will be set within seven days, that means by June 14, 2021," Speaker Yariv Levin told the legislature. "An announcement regarding a date for the session to establish (Israel's) 36th government will be conveyed down the line to members of parliament."
Netanyahu has called this a "government of fraud and surrender" in part because Yamina had vowed not to partner with the Left during the campaign leading up to the March 23 election.
The prime minister has further warned that because the so-called "pro-change coalition" is at the mercy of Islamist lawmakers, the emerging government would not be able to protect Israel's interests and would bow to pressure on Judea and Samaria and other matters relating to the Palestinians.
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