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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12 years in power is set to come to an end as his opponents say they have reached a coalition deal, paving the way to oust the veteran leader.
The eleventh-hour announcement by opposition leader Yair Lapid and his main coalition partner, right politician Naftali Bennett, came just minutes before a midnight deadline, which if missed would have plunged the country into a fifth extraordinary election in just over two years.
Mr Lapid informed the country’s president Reuven Rivlin that he had made a coalition government comprised of his party’s Yesh Atid, Blue and White, Bennett’s Yamina, Labor, Yisrael Beiteinu, New Hope, Meretz and a small Islamist party the United Arab List.
The president’s statement said that a rotation deal had been agreed with Mr Bennett becoming prime minister first and Mr Lapid as alternate prime minister – after two years, they will switch.
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