The anti-Binyamin Netanyahu bloc of parties in the Israeli Knesset have reached an agreement to oust Israel’s longest-serving prime minister from office, which would end his 12-year stretch in office, at least for now. If the agreement holds, Naftali Bennett, the leader of the ultra-nationalist Yamina party and a former tech entrepreneur, will replace Netanyahu as prime minister, despite his faction only having seven members of parliament (MKs) in the 120-seat Knesset.
Under the terms of the agreement, which is not yet a formal coalition deal, Bennett will serve two years as prime minister before being replaced by Yair Lapid, the centrist leader of the larger Yesh Atid party, which has 17 MKs. Netanyahu’s Likud is the largest party in the Knesset, with 30 MKs, but was unable to find enough allies to form a government after the general election in March.
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