Gadi Eisenkot withdrew from scheduled coalition meetings after declaring Benjamin Netanyahu unfit for leadership following his speech at the 26th Knesset's swearing-in ceremony. While Netanyahu warned of the Iranian nuclear threat, he drew fierce backlash for condemning Yashar's outreach to Arab-majority factions Ra’am and the Joint List. Likud pushed back against the cancellation, criticizing Eisenkot for pursuing partners who walked out during the national anthem. Eisenkot is now urging other political figures, including Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett, to establish an emergency government.
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Government formation talks are stalled due to severe clashes over the legitimacy of partn…: Government formation talks are stalled due to severe clashes over the legitimacy of partnering with Arab-majority parties.
Eisenkot holds up to six weeks under his presidential mandate to assemble a viable govern…: Eisenkot holds up to six weeks under his presidential mandate to assemble a viable governing coalition.
Yashar is pivoting toward other opposition leaders to quickly assemble an alternative nat…: Yashar is pivoting toward other opposition leaders to quickly assemble an alternative national emergency administration.
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Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party has cancelled a scheduled meeting with Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party to discuss coalition negotiations, after the Israeli prime minister delivered a speech at the swearing-in of the new Knesset that Eisenkot described as “delusional, divisive, hateful and disgraceful”.
The cancellation came a day after Netanyahu called on opposition leaders to join a national unity government, arguing that Israel needed a united front in the face of the Iranian nuclear threat.
In his address to parliament on Tuesday, he renewed that appeal but also criticised opposition leaders for considering a government supported by Arab-majority parties.
Eisenkot, who has been tasked with forming Israel’s next government, said Netanyahu’s remarks had reinforced his belief that the outgoing prime minister was unfit to remain in office.
“I sat and listened to the outgoing prime minister’s delusional, divisive, hateful and disgraceful speech, in which he abused a state occasion at the swearing-in of the 26th Knesset. I became even more convinced that he is unfit to remain in office for even one more minute,” Eisenkot wrote on X.
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