“Benjamin Netanyahu moved closer to becoming Israel’s prime minister for a record sixth term after President Isaac Herzog said Friday that he would hand him a mandate to form a coalition expected to be made up of right-wing, ultranationalist and religious parties,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Netanyahu Gets Mandate to Form His Sixth Government
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