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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...vt/ar-AA15M7B6

Mr Netanyahu, whose coalition won a clear majority in November elections, will head up a highly controversial right-wing government.

Cabinet posts for Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has previously been convicted of incitement to racism, and Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionism party, have caused considerable unease.

Mr Smotrich, a vocal supporter of illegal Israeli settlements in The West Bank, will become finance minister and take on a post in the Defence Ministry that will give him sweeping powers over the occupied territories.

Mr Ben-Gvir, who has repeatedly threatened and goaded Palestinians in east Jerusalem, will be national security minister, giving him control over the Israeli Police Force.

Earlier in the year, during protests in the Arab neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, he was overheard urging police to shoot at Palestinian demonstrators; he is understood to want to loosen rules governing use of live fire.

Such are the concerns, within Israel and internationally, that the Israeli President Isaac Herzog called Mr Ben-Gvir to a meeting in his office yesterday, a highly unusual move.