JERUSALEM>> Israel’s incoming prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, concluded coalition agreements Wednesday to form the most right-wing and religiously conservative government in the country’s history, a day before an expected vote in parliament to install the new leaders.

The coalition pledged to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move that will deepen the conflict with the Palestinians. And its members agreed to prioritize potentially far-reaching changes that would curb the power and influence of the independent judiciary, one of a number of measures that critics warn risk damaging Israel’s democratic system and paving the way for racism and discrimination against minorities.

Even before the swearing-in ceremony Thursday, a broad public backlash against the government prompted an unusual intervention by Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, who reflected the alarm in some constituencies at home and abroad over the most contentious clauses in the coalition agreements.

Herzog summoned Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of Jewish Power, an ultranationalist party, and the incoming minister of national security, for a meeting and conveyed “voices from large sections of the nation and the Jewish world concerned about the incoming government,” the president’s office said. He urged Ben-Gvir “to calm the stormy winds.”

The president is a largely ceremonial figurehead who has no legal authority to influence the new government, but his voice carries moral weight and is supposed to unify Israelis.

Ben-Gvir told Herzog that he and the new government “will pursue a broad national policy for the sake of all parts of Israeli society,” according to the statement from the president’s office.

The meeting came the same morning that the coalition agreements reached between the partners of the incoming government were presented to parliament Wednesday, a final step required a day before the vote in parliament to approve the new coalition.

The government’s guidelines began with a declaration of the Jewish people’s “exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel” and pledged to bolster Jewish settlement in all areas, including the occupied West Bank — a statement that reflected this government’s abandonment of the internationally recognized formula for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

“We have achieved the goal,” Netanyahu told his Likud party lawmakers Wednesday as the intense coalition negotiations came to an end nearly two months after the Nov. 1 election.

“A huge public in Israel — more than 2 million Israelis — voted for the national camp led by us,” he said. “We will establish a stable government that will last its full term and serve all the citizens of Israel.”

But the agreements were causing strains with the Jewish diaspora and particularly with the largely non-Orthodox community in North America, and are raising concerns regarding Israel’s international standing.

More than 100 retired Israeli ambassadors and senior Foreign Ministry officials signed a letter to Netanyahu on Wednesday expressing their “profound concern” at the potential harm to Israel’s strategic relations, first and foremost with the United States, arising from the apparent policies of the incoming government.

In an interview with CNN, King Abdullah II of Jordan said he was “prepared to get into a conflict” if Israel crossed red lines and tried to change the status of a Jerusalem holy site revered by Muslims and Jews, over which Jordan has custodianship.

Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1994, but relations between Abdullah and Netanyahu have long been tense.