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Benjamin Netanyahu returns as PM of Israel’s most far-right gov’t

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the new speaker of the Knesset, Amir Ohana, chat as Israel's new right-wing government is sworn in [Amir Cohen/Reuters]

Israel’s parliament has sworn in Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, inaugurating the country’s most far-right, religiously conservative government in history.

Netanyahu, 73, took the oath of office on Thursday, moments after Israel’s parliament, or Knesset, passed a vote of confidence in his new government. Of the parliament’s 120 members, 63 voted in favour of the new government, with 54 votes against.

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