Netanyahu fails to form a government in Israel and nears the end of a 12-year Likud term

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not finally managed to form a government before the deadline set for midnight on Tuesday, despite his last desperate attempts, making the end of a twelve-year term of the Likud at the helm increasingly close. Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister, has blamed Yamina's leader, Naftali Bennett, for failing to "form a government with the right," for which he has once again put the formation of a government in hands of the president, Reuven Rivlin. “Due to Bennett's refusal to commit to a right-wing government, a move that would definitely have led to the establishment of a government with the addition of additional deputies, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned the mandate to the president "The Likud reported in a statement shortly before the deadline. In the last hours Netanyahu has offered, in a desperate attempt, to the extreme right Yamina will be in charge of the government for a year, in addition to launching a bill to hold direct elections and allow him to remain in office despite not having a majority in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament. Rivlin is now expected to propose to the opposition bloc, led by Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party, the formation of a government and thus avoid dissolving Parliament and calling new elections, which would be the fifth in just over two years.