Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and Prime Minister Netanyahu at the Knesset swear in, February 5, 2013. Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post
After Days Of Haggling, Netanyahu Strikes Coalition Deal -- Jerusalem Post
Likud Beytenu, Bayit Yehudi and Yesh Atid expected to sign final agreement Thursday morning; new government will have 22 ministers with Bennett as Economy and Trade Minister, Piron as Education Minister.
Likud Beytenu, the Bayit Yehudi and Yesh Atid reached the final stages of coalition talks Wednesday night, with Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett negotiating to break the impasse between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid.
After days of arguing over the Education and Interior portfolios, the number of ministries in the government, the Knesset Finance Committee, and changing Hatnua's coalition deal, the parties reached an apparent compromise brokered by Bennett on Monday evening, meeting late at night to iron out the final details.
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My Comment: President Obama is coming to Israel next week .... the Israeli politicians know that they must get their act together.
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