 Eshkol formed the twelfth government a week later on 22 December 1964 with the same coalition partners and ministers as previously.The fifth Knesset was notable for the coalescing of the two major right-wing parties (Herut and the Liberal Party) to form an electoral block (Gahal) capable of threatening Mapai's hegemony in Israeli politics.Gahal, which by then had become Likud, finally overtook Mapai (which had merged into the Alignment) in the 1977 elections.