JERUSALEM (JTA) — The president of a West Bank Palestinian university was tapped to form a new Palestinian Authority government and become prime minister.
The appointment of Rami Hamdallah, president of an-Najah National University in Nablus, by P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas was announced Sunday.
Hamdallah has three weeks to form a government.
He succeeds Salam Fayyad, who resigned in mid-April but remained to lead a caretaker government until a new government was formed.
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