Benjamin Netanyahu was on Thursday sworn-in as Israel's prime minister for a sixth time, leading the Jewish state's most right-wing government to date.
Netanyahu, 73, already Israel's longest-serving Prime Minister, has the support of 63 lawmakers in the 120-member Knesset (Israeli parliament). In the house, 54 lawmakers voted against his government.
He returned as prime minister with the formation of his sixth government, which is composed of a number of far-right allies, a prospect that many fear would put the new government at odds with large parts of its own population and its closest allies abroad.
The lawmakers supporting the new government are all right-wing, including Netanyahu's Likud party supported by the ultra-orthodox Shas, United Torah Judaism, the far-right Otzma Yehudit, Religious Zionist Party, and Noam.
Shortly before the confidence vote for Israel's 37th government, the Knesset elected Likud lawmaker Amir Ohana as its the new Speaker.
A former justice minister and public security minister in past governments, Ohana is the Knesset's first openly gay speaker.
Speaking at the Knesset ahead of the swearing-in of the new government, Netanyahu said that the three "national goals" of his government would be to prevent Iran from going nuclear, launch a bullet train that runs across the length of the country and bring more Arab countries into the Abraham accords fold.
Amid repeated heckling by opposing members who called Netanyahu "weak" and "racist", he told them to "respect the will of the voters," and that "this is not the end of democracy or the end of the country."
"In a democracy, you don't climb over the walls of the Capitol nor those of the Knesset," he said.
He promised to improve the personal safety of the citizens and lower the high cost of living.