Reported agreement could install far-right former settler leader Naftali Bennett as prime minister
Rival politicians in Israel united only in their opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu could be closing in on a deal to oust the country’s longest-serving leader as soon as this week.
The opposition leader Yair Lapid, a former TV news anchor popular with the country’s secular middle class, has until a Wednesday deadline to build a coalition government after Netanyahu failed to do so.
