According to a report in The New York Times (and every major newspaper in the world), the long reign of Benjamin Netanyahu, the dominant Israeli politician of the past generation, officially ended on June 13, when the country’s Parliament gave its vote of confidence to a “precarious coalition government stitched together by widely disparate anti-Netanyahu forces,” the Times said.

Naftali Bennett, a 49-year-old former aide to Mr. Netanyahu replaced him as prime minister after winning by just a single vote. Yair Lapid, a centrist leader and the new foreign minister, is set to take Mr. Bennett’s place after two years.

They lead a “fragile eight-party alliance,” the Times said,  ranging from far left to hard right, from secular to religious that many consider both the “embodiment of the rich diversity of Israeli society but also the essence of its political disarray.”

From Moment Magazine, “In Israel, the era of Benjamin Netanyahu, the nation’s longest-serving prime minister, ended with an unruly Knesset session. Israel’s transition from 12 years of Netanyahu dominating the political scene to a never-before-tested coalition cobbled together from differing, and at times diametrically opposed, ideological backgrounds, was accompanied by a soundtrack of constant interruption, heckling and boos.

“Naftali Bennett, Israel’s new prime minister, barely had a chance to deliver the most important speech of his life. In between the shouts from Likud and right-wing parties’ benches accusing him of being a liar and a traitor, Bennett tried to convey a message of polite pragmatism, coupled with a call for national unity — the very thing that was so lacking at that moment in the Israeli parliament.

“The unpleasant tone did not obscure the dramatic effect of the moment: For the first time in more than a decade, a person whose name is not Benjamin Netanyahu has taken the oath of office.”