Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu called President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday, shortly before midnight, announcing that he had successfully formed a government. The phone call came 12 minutes exactly before Netanyahu’s deadline for assembling a coalition majority expired.
In a video of his phone call with Herzog, posted on social media, Netanyahu said, “I have managed to set up a government that will take care of all the citizens of Israel. And I of course intend to establish it as quickly as possible.”
