# Netanyahu is sworn in as prime minister after the 1996 election

Date: 1996

## The fact

On 18 June 1996 [Benjamin Netanyahu](/people/benjamin-netanyahu) was sworn in as Israel’s prime minister after defeating Shimon Peres, the first direct election of a prime minister.

## Context

The Knesset invested the government. Neighbouring Hebron and Wye are child instruments of that term.

Hebron 1997 and Wye 1998 are child instruments. The 2019 indictment is a different decade.

The Prime Minister of Israel chairs the cabinet, is the political principal of the IDF, and can table Knesset bills. He does not write a Hamas military order, an ICC judgment, a US presidential proclamation, or a UN Security Council resolution.

## Evidence and sources

Knesset carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed electoral rotation into the premiership is a dated peaceful-transfer instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 18 June 1996 swearing-in after the 1996 election, independently reported.

Not established: that Oslo was thereby completed or cancelled, or a unique later growth coefficient from the ceremony.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Knesset invested. He took the oath.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Netanyahu is sworn in as prime minister after the 1996 election, not a later speech about Netanyahu is sworn in as prime minister after the 1996 election.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Netanyahu is sworn in as prime minister after the 1996 election on 1996-06-18 is not a licence to treat every later Knesset communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Netanyahu is sworn in as prime minister after the 1996 election into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Voters elected. The Knesset invested. He took the oath. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Benjamin Netanyahu: https://factrail.ai/people/benjamin-netanyahu

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-netanyahu-1996-idUSKCN0Q70N3
- https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/mk/Apps/mk/mk-personal-details/90

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/il-first-term-1996