(Globes) Shirit Avitan-Cohen - Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid informed Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday that he had succeeded in forming a new government based on a coalition of eight opposition parties that hold 61 seats in the 120-member Knesset. The Knesset must still vote to approve the new government. According to the deal, Yamina party chairman Naftali Bennett will serve as prime minister for the first two years, rotating with alternate Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid. The new coalition includes the 4-seat United Arab List led by Mansour Abbas, deputy chairman of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel.
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