The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has voted to dissolve itself, triggering new elections.
On Friday, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will take over as caretaker prime minister under the terms of a coalition agreement made between outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Lapid last year.
Thursday's 92-0 vote brings an end to Bennett's run as prime minister - one of the shortest terms in Israeli history - and gives former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a path to return to power.
New elections will be held on November 1 - the fifth round of voting for Israelis in less than four years. Recent polling shows former prime minister Netanyahu's Likud party on track to win the most number of seats, but the polls do not show that his right-wing bloc will necessarily have enough seats to gain a parliamentary majority and be able to form a ruling government.
The Bennett-Lapid government was sworn into office in June last year bringing an end to Netanyahu's premiership, which had lasted more than 12 years.
Made up of no fewer than eight political parties, the coalition stretched right across the political spectrum, including for the first time an Arab party, led by Mansour Abbas.
