Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on all factions in the 19th Knesset to join a unity government, after accepting President Shimon Peres' invitation to form the coalition on Saturday night.
Netanyahu called on leaders of parties that announced they would not sit in his government to reconsider and stressed the need to form the broadest coalition possible in order to deal with issues the State of Israel is facing, both domestically and internationally.
"We have to put aside what divides us so that we can have peace among ourselves and with our neighbors," he said.