Members of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, were sworn in three weeks after a tumultuous national election.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday delivered a message of national unity to the 120 members of parliament ahead of the swearing in ceremony in Jerusalem, calling upon them “to fight for our common home where secular, religious, ultra-Orthodox, Jews and Arabs … right and left can find themselves equal.”
He urged them to “put down the cudgels of elections and to clean up the mess” after the “difficult election campaign” that saw Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prevail.
Netanyahu has been tasked with building a governing coalition after his Likud party and its ultra-Orthodox and nationalist allies won a 65-seat majority. Simultaneously, the long-serving premier faces an upcoming hearing over a battery of corruption allegations.
(AP)
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Watch Netanyahu make a coalition with Lapid/Gantz and throw the Orthodox under the bus, the same way he did with Lapid in 2013.
Netanyahu does not look good in that suit. I think it’s too big. Should have bought on size down.
They appear so much more elegant than the old Rough and Tumble Knesset
Now the presidency needs a glory makeover