Benjamin Netanyahu is due to be ousted from office on Sunday by a new Israeli government formed with the primary aim of dethroning the country’s longest-serving leader.

A motley grouping of politicians, including former Netanyahu allies turned foes, have set aside bitter differences to put an end to the prime minister’s historic run in power.

The party’s leader, Mansour Abbas, is seen as a pragmatist and said he had secured guarantees from hard-right coalition partners for greater rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel, including on discriminatory housing policies, as well as several billions of pounds for infrastructure in Arab areas.

Crucially, agreements suggested the new government could advance legislation that would limit any prime minister to eight years in office, potentially putting paid to Netanyahu’s plans for a future run for office.

In a week of indignation leading up to the vote, Netanyahu accused Bennett of betraying rightwing voters by joining a coalition of what Netanyahu describes as weak Jewish “leftists” and Arab politicians he paints as a potential fifth column.

But there is little optimism around a government led by Bennett, a former leader of a Jewish settler group in the West Bank.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s political demise will also see the departure of Jewish ultra-Orthodox politicians, who have become deeply entwined in the prime minister’s political bloc.

Another parliamentarian from the same party, Moshe Gafni, focused his ire on Bennett, who, while expected to become Israel’s first Orthodox prime minister, was branded by Gafni as a traitor focused on power