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Just two days before the extension granted him by the president is due to expire, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected on Thursday to complete the task of forming Israel’s 33rd government. The final note in the strangest, if not the most bizarre coalition negotiations ever conducted here, was sounded by yet another concession by the prime minister to the leader of the least experienced Knesset faction, who is slated to become finance minister. This is not the government Netanyahu wanted. This is not the ministry Yair Lapid dreamed of. The two of them are going under the canopy with no joy, sour-faced, and with quite a bit of mutual resentment. The clash of the titans over the education portfolio ended with a victory for Lapid. It was yet another victory, after he had...