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After 500 days of crisis, Israel acquires a unity government

After 500 days of twists and turns, three elections and negotiations until the last minute, the unity government of Benjamin Netanyahu and his ex-rival Benny Gantz must be sworn in on Thursday evening to end the longest political crisis in the history of Israel.

Some people no longer believed in it and others did not yet believe it as this political saga was like an endless soap opera. But Israeli parliamentarians must play the final episode of "Israeli political crisis" and simultaneously start the new season of "Union Government".

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