(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on June 2, 2021 shows (Top (L to R) Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid, Israeli former Defence Minister Naftali Bennett, Israeli former Interior Minister Gidon Saar, Israeli ex-defence minister Avigdor Lieberman, (bottom L to R) Israeli politician Nitzan Horowitz, alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz, head of Israel's conservative Islamic Raam party Mansour Abbas, and leader of the Jewish state's Labour Party (HaAvoda) Merav Michaeli. - Lapid informed the country's president he has managed to muster enough support across a broad political spectrum to achieve a government of "change", which could signal the end of Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership and two years of political crisis. (Photos by AFP)
The Knesset swears in the 36th government, appointing the right-wing Naftali Bennett the next prime minister and removing Benjamin Netanyahu from power after 12 consecutive years.
The so-called “change government” is approved with 60 of the Knesset’s 120 lawmakers in favor and 59 opposed.
Ra’am MK Said al-Harumi abstains.
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