

So far, that common interest has staved off internal battles as the coalition partners focused on approving a budget. Bennett’s predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, out of office.

The governing coalition, made up of right-wing, centrist and left-wing political factions as well as a small Arab Islamist party, has been bound together mostly by its desire to keep Mr. JERUSALEM - Israel’s Parliament narrowly approved a state budget on Thursday, the country’s first in more than three years, removing an imminent threat to the survival of the government that could bring some political stability after a chaotic stretch of four elections within two years.īut the razor-thin majority eked out by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s coalition of eight parties with clashing ideologies and disparate agendas raised questions about whether the government could last out its four-year term and end Israel’s prolonged political morass.
