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Israeli PM Netanyahu forms new coalition |
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu has reportedly struck a deal to form a new coalition cabinet in a bid
to avoid snap elections that he had sought earlier. According to Israeli media,
in a surprising move, the opposition Kadima Party will join Netanyahu's Likud
Party. Media reports said that Kadima would back Netanyahu in return for changes
to the so-called Tal Law, which allows ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students
to defer military conscription. The move came as the Israeli parliament, the Knesset,
debated the cabinet's dissolution ahead of the polls, The BBC reports. According
to the agreement, Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz would become the country's deputy
prime minister. Netanyahu's right-wing administration had been scheduled to remain
in power until October 2013. He earlier announced plans to bring elections forward
after disagreements with a junior coalition partner. Meanwhile, opinion polls
have suggested that Likud could win at least a quarter of the Knesset's 120 seats
if the elections were held in September. |
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