Veteran leader and his far-right allies win decisive 64 seats in 120-seat Knesset
The former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun coalition negotiations on forming a government, after winning a decisive majority in Israel’s fifth election in four years with the help of ultra-Orthodox parties and a new alliance with the far right.
After a year in opposition, the veteran politician engineered a comeback in Tuesday’s vote, after years of political chaos triggered by his ongoing corruption trial. His majority means that the period of electoral deadlock is in all probability over for now, and Netanyahu – already the country’s longest service prime minister – is set to stay in the job for at least the next four years. Back in office, he will seek to get his corruption charges dropped.
