Netanyahu signs a coalition agreement with the Israeli far right
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's conservative Likud party has signed its first coalition agreement with Itamar Ben-Gvir's far-right Jewish Power party, Likud said in a statement on Friday.The agreement, which does not provide for a complete and final new government in Israel, gives Ben-Gvir the police ministry and a seat in the security cabinet."We took a big step tonight towards a full coalition agreement, towards the formation of a fully right-wing government," Ben-Gvir said in the statement.Far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir shows his ballot paper during Israeli elections earlier this month. Tsafrir Abayov/APNetanyahu's Likud and its far-right and religious…
