Israel’s new foreign minister, Yair Lapid, pledged on Monday to mend ties with the US Democratic Party, which he said had been abandoned by the recently ousted government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
His comments came a day after the Israeli Knesset formally approved Lapid’s diverse coalition government on Sunday, bringing to an end a record straight 12 years of Netanyahu rule. Right-wing Yamina leader Naftali Bennett was sworn in as Israel’s new prime minister, and Lapid as both chief Israeli diplomat and alternate prime minister.
