Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set on Thursday to present his proposed government for the approval of parliament, where his coalition commands a razor-thin majority.

Netanyahu's new administration marks a shift to the right by giving increased prominence to Naftali Bennett's far-right Jewish Home, which opposes a Palestinian state and strongly backs settlement activity.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to submit his new government list to parliament on Thursday for a vote of confidence, a parliamentary spokesman said.

The spokesman said Netanyahu, at a session opening at 7 pm (1600 GMT), would deliver his government program and the presentation would be followed by a vote and the swearing in of ministers.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition stressed its desire Wednesday to achieve peace with the Palestinians and other Arab states as he prepared to present his new government.

"The Jewish people have the indisputable right to a sovereign state in the Land of Israel, its national and historic homeland," read the coalition guidelines presented to parliament.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced alleged resurgence in anti-Semitism both in the Middle East and in the West, in a speech on Tuesday at a forum about the problem.

"Today there is no doubt that we are living in an age of resurgent anti-Semitism," Netanyahu said at the opening of the fifth Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara has hit back at what she says is a smear campaign over her alleged mistreatment of domestic employees, media reported on Monday.

She railed that her "blood has been spilled publicly" at an ongoing trial Sunday over her alleged abuse of the former caretaker at the premier's residence, just months after she was alleged to have pocketed public funds through bottle deposits.

Israel's outgoing cabinet on Sunday approved legal changes that will allow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to boost the number of ministers in his new government.

In its last meeting before Netanyahu's new government is to be sworn in by Wednesday, the cabinet voted to push back the implementation of a law limiting the number of ministers to 18.

Israel's parliament is to vote next week on enlarging the cabinet, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party said Friday, reportedly to satisfy senior party members demanding portfolios.

After six weeks of intensive post-election negotiations, Netanyahu on Thursday signed a deal with the far-right Jewish Home party, completing his new coalition government.

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett, a social media savvy former entrepreneur and vocal opponent of a Palestinian state, is the new kingmaker of Israeli politics with a key role in the government.

The 43-year-old's meteoric rise has turned his nationalist-religious party into a political force able to demand several key portfolios in return for joining Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's incoming coalition.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new rightwing religious "government of war" is a blow to an already stagnating peace process, Palestinians said Thursday, vowing to fight it on the international stage.

The Palestine Liberation Organization blasted Israel's "extremist" cabinet, after Netanyahu announced a coalition government that gave him a slim parliamentary majority and included ministers who oppose the internationally-sanctioned two-state solution.

Israel has approved construction of 900 settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem, a watchdog said Thursday shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed a new rightwing religious coalition.

The new homes will be built in the east Jerusalem settlement neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo following a decision late Wednesday by the city's district planning committee, Peace Now spokeswoman Hagit Ofran told AFP.