Yesh Atid has secured five ministerial portfolios, while Jewish Home parties will have three, reports say.
Yair Lapid's newly-formed centrist Yesh Atid party surprised observers by coming second with 19 seats.
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Yesh Atid, led by journalist-turned-politician Yair Lapid, is credited with 18 or 19 seats.
Mr Lapid's newly-formed Yesh Atid party shocked observers by coming second with 19 seats in Tuesday's election.
The coalition includes Mr Netanyahu's Likud-Beitnu bloc, the centrist Yesh Atid party and the right-wing Jewish Home party.
Yesh Atid is expected to be responsible for finance and education and Likud will run the interior ministry.
Yesh Atid took 19 seats and Jewish Home, led by Naftali Bennett, finished in fourth place with 12.
He has offered to work with the newly-formed Yesh Atid party, which shocked observers by coming second with 19.
On his Facebook page, Yair Lapid, the leader of Yesh Atid, says the coalition agreement will be signed "probably tonight".
Or will he move to the center and try to form a coalition with Yesh Atid, for example, and others?
His Likud-Yisrael Beitenu party list will form a coalition with the centrist Yesh Atid and Hatnua and the far-right Jewish Home.
It will be virtually impossible for Netanyahu to form a government without support of the Yesh Atid and Jewish Home parties.
For the moment, Yair Lapid and his Yesh Atid (There Is a Future) party, bring unique street credibility to the Knesset.
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Analysts say the 18 or 19 seats predicted for Yesh Atid, headed by journalist-turned-politician Yair Lapid, is a stunning result for a newcomer.
The prime minister has offered to work with the newly-formed Yesh Atid party, a secular centrist party set up by Mr Lapid last year.
"Whoever wants Yesh Atid in the coalition will need to bring these things, " Ofer Shelah, a senior member of the party, told Israeli Army Radio.
The nationalist group Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) got 12, but the new centrist party Yesh Atid (There is a Future) came second with 19 seats.
"I think it's a very clear statement that the people of Israel want to see a different direction, " said Yesh Atid candidate Rabbi Dov Lipman.
These happen to be major planks of Lapid's upstart party, Yesh Atid, which surprisingly came in second in Tuesday's elections to Netanyahu's Likud Beitenu party.
Likud will reportedly run the interior ministry, while Yesh Atid has secured five portfolios - including finance and education - and Jewish Home will have three.
It was a reference to the nationalist Jewish Home and centrist Yesh Atid parties, which have refused to join his coalition if it includes the ultra-Orthodox.
Yesh Atid called for reforming the governmental system, improving education, jump-starting the economy through small-business assistance and providing housing assistance for military veterans and young couples.
Those were three high-priority issues for the new centrist party Yesh Atid, which emerged as the second largest party in the January elections after Netanyahu's Likud party.
Yesh Atid also calls for reforming the governmental system, improving education, jump-starting the economy through small-business assistance and providing housing assistance for military veterans and young couples.
Talks on the size and shape of the cabinet went on late into Wednesday night between Likud and its two main coalition partners, Yesh Atid and Jewish Home.
These two parties, together with former newsreader Yair Lapid's new Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party, represent a surplus of centrist groups with limited ideological differences among them.
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But centrist parties like Shinui and Yesh Atid in Israel have had a longevity problem, something that was also seen with the Kadima experiment that faded after Ariel Sharon.
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While he said it's possible that a centrist coalition could emerge led by Yesh Atid, which means "there is a future, " and Labor, he thinks Netanyahu and Lapid will form a government.
Jewish Home and Yesh Atid are keen to end a controversial system of military draft exemptions given to ultra-Orthodox seminary students, who are allowed to study Jewish texts in lieu of military service.
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