First Thing | Netanyahu teeters as Israeli opposition agree on coalition

In telling the president he can form a government under far-right politician Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid has taken a critical step in possibly ending Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year run in office

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Benjamin Netanyahu is facing the most precarious moment of his 12-year stretch as Israel's prime minister, after opposition politicians met a midnight deadline to propose the formation of a coalition government.