From Netanyahu on phone with Herzog, telling him he’s succeeded in forming gov’t
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Isaac Herzog at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, as Herzog tasks Netanyahu with forming a governing coalition, November 13, 2022 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
Prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu is on the phone with President Isaac Herzog to inform him that he has succeeded in forming a coalition, with less than 30 minutes remaining before the midnight deadline, Channel 12 reports.
Netanyahu must now inform Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin that he has mustered a majority, and Levin will formally tell the Knesset on Monday, December 26, at parliament’s next legislative session.
The prime minister-designate then has another week, until January 2, to actually get his coalition sworn in.
