Israeli Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu has informed President Isaac Herzog that he has succeeded in forming the next government, the presidency said Wednesday evening a few minutes before a crucial deadline.
“I have it
,” Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted in Hebrew a few minutes before his deadline, at 11:59 p.m. local time (21:59 GMT), to announce the formation of the next government.
The Israeli presidency, for its part, confirmed to AFP that Benyamin Netanyahu had
“called”
Isaac Herzog
“to inform him”
of this news on time.