Israeli opposition chief Benjamin Netanyahu and his household will go away the nation’s official prime minister’s residence no later than July 10, Netanyahu and Israel’s new prime minister mentioned.
Netanyahu was unseated as prime minister earlier this month. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett succeeded in cobbling collectively a authorities within the aftermath of Israel’s fourth consecutive election in two years.
Netanyahu, who served for 12 years as prime minister till Bennett’s authorities was sworn in final week, has but to maneuver out of the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem.
The residence on Balfour Street was the scene of weekly protests calling on Netanyahu to resign whereas on trial for corruption costs up to now yr. Netanyahu refused to step down from workplace and has denied any wrongdoing. The nation’s repeated elections had been largely a referendum on his health to serve.
In a joint assertion late Saturday, Bennett and Netanyahu’s places of work mentioned they’d agreed that the Netanyahu household would depart the residence no later than July 10. Thereafter, the assertion mentioned, “the residence will transfer to the use of Prime Minister Bennett.”
Netanyahu has repeatedly vowed to topple the newly shaped authorities, which he has referred to as a “dangerous leftist government.” It is comprised of eight events, together with a number of headed by former allies and proteges of Netanyahu, smaller liberal events and an Islamist faction.
