It will be easier for them to do so in the economic arena and basically rebuilding Israel's economy and repositioning it for the post-COVID world. And in this respect, their main job in governing will be to constantly try and achieve a consensus. He'll be, of course, a prime minister, but he will govern together with seven other party leaders. And Naftali Bennett will be a first among equals. One of them, Naftali Bennett's, is small party. PLESNER: Well, it's a coalition, yeah, that has - about two-thirds of it are center-left parties and a third right-wing parties. INSKEEP: What would Naftali Bennett as prime minister stand for, given that he is considered right wing - more right wing than Netanyahu, in fact - but he'd have left-wing parties in his coalition? And we hope that within a week this crisis will be over and a new government - an unlikely outcome, we should mention - will be sworn in by the Knesset and will get the country back to work, appoint a top professional staff, pass a budget, make decisions and, probably most importantly, lower the internal and domestic rhetoric and the divisive rhetoric that we've been experiencing throughout this crisis. PLESNER: Well, we've experienced two years of the deepest political crisis and political paralysis in the country's history. INSKEEP: Does it seem to you that Israel's democratic system is working right now? YOHANAN PLESNER: Thanks, Steve, and good morning, and thanks for having me. He's a former member of Israel's Knesset, or Parliament, and is now president of the Israel Democracy Institute, which works to strengthen Israel as both a Jewish and democratic state. The new prime minister would be Naftali Bennett, a former Netanyahu aide. Right-wing, centrist and left-wing parties would combine in a government of national unity, replacing a leader who has endured election after election but is now on trial for corruption charges. A coalition of parties is near announcing a government that would not include Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel is close to having a new prime minister.
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