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Netanyahu’s hardline government is preparing to take office

Benjamin Netanyahu was set to return on Thursday at the helm of the most religious and ultra-nationalist government in Israel’s history. Netanyahu’s new government has pledged to prioritize settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, provide massive subsidies to his ultra-Orthodox allies and push for sweeping reforms to the judiciary that threatens the country’s democratic institutions can bring. Netanyahu is the country’s longest-serving prime minister, serving from 2009 to 2021 and serving in the 1990s.