Netanyahu's new hardline Israeli gov't sworn in
2022-12-30 16:29:43 source：CGTN
December 30, 2022
Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving Israeli leader, returned to power on Thursday as the country's prime minister at the helm of an extreme-right coalition.
In an official inauguration ceremony at the Israeli parliament, lawmakers voted by 63-54 in favor of approving the new government.
The new government is made up of an alliance of Netanyahu's conservative Likud party, the pro-settler Religious Zionism which calls for annexation of the occupied West Bank, the Jewish Power party whose leader was convicted of supporting "Jewish terrorism and inciting racism," and the Noam party, an extreme-right party that opposes LGBTQ rights, as well as Shas and United Torah Judaism, two ultra-Orthodox parties.
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