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With the support of 73 out of 120 Knesset deputies , the long government train has started on its way, leaving behind a stagnation of more than 500 days. A locomotive powered by the pandemic emergency and driven by acting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and centrist leader Benny Gantz who will be Defense Minister until November 17, 2021 when he takes over from his great rival in the three elections in the last year.

Under the high rise in unemployment due to confinement in Israel in March and April, the so-called "National Emergency Government" has taken office this Sunday amid relief at avoiding other elections and criticism of Israel's broadest and most wasteful coalition with 35 ministers and 16 vice ministers . Especially for the invention of some portfolios and the surreal fragmentation into pieces of others already existing to satisfy the appetite of the deputies of seven formations. "We accept the criticism but the alternative was to hold the fourth elections in a year that would be much more expensive," replies the new minister, Mijael Biton (Blue and White) in the 35th Government in the history of Israel and the first in which two leaders they swear the office of prime minister at the same time.

It is the price of the delicate structure built between Netanyahu and Gantz to counteract their deep mistrust and sustain an Executive where ministers of the right, the center-left (including two of the three Labor deputies) and ultra-Orthodox must coexist despite the harsh mutual accusations until recently. just two months and the ideological differences regarding the judicial establishment, the state-religion relationship or the conflict with the Palestinians.

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