End of the road for Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving PM

Netanyahu’s 12-year stretch as prime minister ends after opposition leader Yair Lapid forms new government without him.

Rival politicians in Israel have formed a new government to remove Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving leader, from power. After four parliamentary elections in two years, opposition leader Yair Lapid, a former TV news anchor, put together a coalition with Naftali Bennett, a former settler leader and hard-right religious nationalist who has called for  the annexation of most of the occupied West Bank. On Sunday, the Knesset voted 60-59 to approve the new coalition government, ending Netanyahu’s 12-year rule as prime minister.