The eight parties forming the incoming Israeli government finalized their agreements on Friday, two days before the expected swearing-in of a new ruling coalition that will unseat Israel’s long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett, whose right-wing Yamina party was the last to sign an agreement with Yair Lapid's centrist Yesh Atid, said on Friday that the signings have brought Israel’s two-and-a-half-year political crisis to an end. 

“We are faced with great challenges and all the citizens of Israel are looking to us with hope,” Bennett said in a joint statement from Yamina and Yesh Atid. “The government will work for all the Israeli public — religious, secular, ultra-Orthodox, Arab — without exception, as one.”

As opposition leader Lapid cobbled together an ideologically diverse alliance of parties that share little in common beyond their goal of ending Netanyahu’s 12-year grip on power. The unlikely coalition includes right-wing Yamina, New Hope and Yisrael Beitenu, centrist Yesh Atid, the center-left Blue and White Party and Israeli Labor, left-wing Meretz and the Arab Ra’am.