Netanyahu Begins Negotiations to Form New Government in Israel

Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu has begun negotiations with his religious allies and the extreme right, to form a government that may be the most extreme in Israel's history.

Netanyahu won the relative majority of the Knesset seats, and the results showed that the Likud party headed by him won 32 seats.

However, the two ultra-Orthodox parties “United Torah Judaism” for Western Ashkenazi Jews and the “Shas” party for Eastern Jews (Sepradim) won 18 seats, as did the extreme right-wing “Zionism” alliance. Religious", with 14 seats.

Thus, the right-wing bloc headed by Netanyahu won 64 seats, a stable majority in the 120-seat parliament, bringing the curtain down on an unprecedented era of political stalemate.

"Yediot Aharonot", an Israeli daily newspaper, wrote that the next government "will be an unprecedented government," adding that "most of the important ministerial portfolios will be in the hands of fanatics."