It consisted of a coalition of Likud, Yisrael Beiteinu, Shas, the Labor and the Jewish Home.

[3] Ehud Olmert Kadima Benjamin Netanyahu Likud On 1 April 2009, United Torah Judaism joined as well.

In January 2011, Labor Party leader Ehud Barak formed a breakaway party, Independence, which enabled him to maintain his loyal Labor's MK faction within Netanyahu's government, and prevented the departure of Labor party as a whole from Netanyahu's coalition-government.

On 8 May 2012, following weeks of speculation that early elections would be called, Netanyahu announced a new National Unity Coalition after striking a deal with Kadima head Shaul Mofaz bringing the coalition majority to 94 MKs.

[4] Kadima subsequently left the ruling coalition on 17 July due to a dispute over the Tal Law.