May 6, 2015
By Jodi Rodoren
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (click here) of Israel barely met the legal deadline to form a new government on Wednesday night and will start his fourth term with the slimmest of parliamentary majorities, made up of right-leaning and religious parties.
By Jodi Rodoren
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (click here) of Israel barely met the legal deadline to form a new government on Wednesday night and will start his fourth term with the slimmest of parliamentary majorities, made up of right-leaning and religious parties.
Mr.
Netanyahu and his Likud Party celebrated a surprisingly strong victory
in the March 17 elections after a divisive campaign, but ended up
scrambling to scrape together 61 of Parliament’s 120 members into a
coalition — and hold on to his premiership. He was forced to make major
concessions to the more conservative Jewish Home party, and emerged
weakened to lead a government that Israeli experts said was unlikely to
last long or do much....
