Israeli President Isaac Herzog granted Benjamin Netanyahu another 10 days on Friday to form a government, giving him until December 21 to solidify his plans.
While the Prime Minister-designate has enough Knesset members between his coalition and his party, Likud, to take the reins, he has yet to get all the parties, one of which is extremely right-wing, to agree on certain ministerial roles and a guiding ideology for the new government.
Netanyahu has only managed to get a temporary new Speaker of the Knesset in place, although that has been enough to raise concerns about the future of the balance of power between Israel’s legislative and judicial branches and sounding the alarm that Israel may become a democracy in “name only.”
Netanyahu asked Herzog for a two-week extension due to “many and complex issues of principle.” He said he “will need all the days of extension…
