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Former Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Kobi Gideon/GPO via Getty Images)
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to topple the new eight-party diverse coalition government which brought an end to his stint as the longest-serving premier of the country.
Netanyahu made the remark during a meeting on Monday, which he convened for the first time as the new leader of the opposition following his ouster a day earlier, reports Xinhua news agency.
The "deceit government will soon be toppled", Netanyahu said, referring to a government by his opponents, nationalist Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid, which was sworn in on Sunday.
He urged lawmakers with his allied parties to show cohesion and "iron discipline" to paralyse the coalition in the parliament, saying ending the rule of the new government will "bring redemption to the people and the State of Israel".
Lawmakers with the Likud, Netanyahu's right-wing party, heckled Bennett when he addressed Parliament on Sunday to present his new government.
They shouted insults and interrupted almost every sentence he said.
Bennett, leader of the pro-settler Yamina party and Netanyahu's former chief of staff, and Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party and former finance minister, were sworn in after the parliament narrowly approved their new coalition government.
Under a coalition agreement, Bennett, 49, and Lapid, 57, will rotate as Prime Ministers.
Bennett will serve as Prime Minister for a first term of two years while Lapid will serve as alternate premier and Foreign Minister.
They will then rotate for the latter two-year term.
The establishment of the eight-party coalition government ended Netanyahu's record 12-year-long rule.
He is facing a criminal trial over corruption charges.
It also ended a lingering political crisis that has seen four rounds of elections in two years.
The story has been published via a syndicated feed, only the headline has been changed
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