From Smotrich indicates that Netanyahu has succeeded in forming gov’t minutes before deadline
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Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (left) speaks with Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich during a vote in the Knesset, December 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Religious Zionism chairman Bezalel Smotrich indicates that prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has succeeded in forming a coalition, with less than an hour left before the deadline.
Netanyahu’s office has yet to release a statement on the matter. He has until midnight to inform President Isaac Herzog that he has succeeded in building a government.
He alternatively can request a four-day extension, but it is not clear whether Herzog would grant one to him since he already asked for a 14-day extension and Herzog sufficed with giving him until tonight to finish the job
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