"I've got it," Netanyahu wrote on Twitter just before the deadline. After his Likud party won the parliamentary elections on November 13, he secured the support of three far-right and two ultra-Orthodox parties. However, the coalition talks turned out to be difficult, mainly because of the distribution of cabinet posts. President Herzog had granted the former and future head of government an extension of the deadline on December 9 to form a governing coalition.

The government that has now formed is the furthest to the right in Israeli history. In a letter on the occasion of the extension of the deadline, Herzog had expressly called for a government that reflects the entire range of Israel's society and respects the country's diversity.