JERUSALEM: Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will receive an official mandate on Sunday to form a new government, Israel’s presidency said, following the completion of consultations with lawmakers.Sixty-four representatives from Israel’s 120-seat legislature recommended that President Isaac Herzog appoint Netanyahu, a statement said Friday, adding that the former premier has been summoned “to accept the task of forming the government from the president on Sunday.”Netanyahu will have 28 days to form a cabinet, with a 14-day extension available if required.His right-wing Likud party and its allies — two ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties and the extreme-right Religious Zionism bloc — won 64 seats in the Knesset, or parliament, at the November 1 election — Israel’s fifth in less than four years.After a period of unprecedented political gridlock, the result has given the veteran premier the majority to form a stable governing coalition, which may also be the most right-wing in Israeli history.Netanyahu led Israel from 1996 to 1999 and then again from 2009 to 2021 in a record tenure in office.The 73-year-old remains on trial over corruption allegations, which he denies.