NEW ERA: Israel new power play to bring bold shake-up

Israel’s parliament has sworn in Naftali Bennet as the country’s newest prime minister, bringing an end to Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year reign.

In what is the narrowest of margins, Bennet won the confidence movement with 60 votes to 59 votes.

Israel has been in a game of political deadlock for the past several years, and Bennet’s victory follows four elections in the space of two years.

Bennet says “I am proud of the ability to sit together with people with very different views from my own, twice in history, we have lost our national home precisely because the leaders of the generation were not able to sit with one and another and compromise.”

Welcomed change of direction

Bennet’s incoming coalition is made up of eight separate political parties and is considered the most diverse leadership group Israel has ever seen.

Ticker's resident political commentator Bruce Wolpe says this new Government will have a principle focus on Iran.

“The focus on Israeli government will principally be Iran,”

Wolpe told ticker news

Wolpe continues on to say that “a source of contention” will surround the threat Iran poses to Israel and opposing the negotiated deal presented by President Biden.

“I think there is also going to be focus on changes in the Israeli society and the direction it takes at home,” Wolpe says.