Netanyahu's opponents hashing out deal as deadline looms

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid was tasked by the country’s figurehead president with forming a government earlier this month after Netanyahu failed to do so in the aftermath of the March 23 elections. | Oded Balilty/AP Photo

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

05/31/2021 04:09 PM EDT

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JERUSALEM — A constellation of Israeli political parties seeking to unseat longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened Monday to hash out power-sharing agreements two days before a deadline.

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said at a meeting of his Yesh Atid party that “a great many obstacles” stood before a prospective government. But he said

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