The Guardian Weekly

Far-right extremist gets security minister job

The far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir will be national security minister under a coalition deal

with Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, in what is likely to be Israel’s most rightwing government.

The agreement comes after the prime minister-designate’s alliance won a comfortable victory in last month’s parliamentary election, Israel’s fifth in less than four years. Netanyahu is still in talks with three other parties on forming his new government.

Ben-Gvir, the leader of the Jewish Power party, was convicted in 2007 of racist incitement against Arabs and backing a group considered by Israel and the US to be a terrorist organisation.

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