Israel's 37th government sworn in

 

January 6, 2023

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President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sit at the center of the traditional photograph of the incoming government at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Dec. 29, 2022.

(JNS) - Israel's thirty-seventh government was sworn in on Thursday, the culmination of a weeks-long political process following the victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-religious bloc in the Nov. 1 national elections.

Netanyahu, Israel's longest-ever serving leader, takes the reins for his sixth term in the Prime Minister's Office, to which he returns following a year-and-a-half hiatus.

His Likud Party will lead a 64-member coalition in the 120-seat Knesset, that comprises the Religious Zionism Party (RZP), Otzma Yehudit, Noam, Shas and United Torah Judaism.

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