Members of Israel�s parliament, the Knesset, were sworn in three weeks after a tumultuous national election.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday delivered a message of national unity to the 120 members of parliament ahead of the swearing in ceremony in Jerusalem, calling upon them �to fight for our common home where secular, religious, ultra-Orthodox, Jews and Arabs … right and left can find themselves equal.�
He urged them to �put down the cudgels of elections and to clean up the mess� after the �difficult election campaign� that saw Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prevail.
Netanyahu has been tasked with building a governing coalition after his Likud party and its ultra-Orthodox and nationalist allies won a 65-seat majority. Simultaneously, the long-serving premier faces an upcoming hearing over a battery of corruption allegations.
(AP)
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Watch Netanyahu make a coalition with Lapid/Gantz and throw the Orthodox under the bus, the same way he did with Lapid in 2013.
Netanyahu does not look good in that suit. I think it’s too big. Should have bought on size down.
They appear so much more elegant than the old Rough and Tumble Knesset
Now the presidency needs a glory makeover