Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot called on all parties, including members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, to join a national emergency government as he formally received the mandate from President Isaac Herzog on Sunday to assemble a coalition. Warning at the Jerusalem ceremony that Israel is in “a state of urgency and deep political turmoil” unseen since its founding, the Yashar party chief said he could not imagine forming a government without Likud lawmakers’ support. Eisenkot had earlier dismissed Netanyahu’s own unity appeal as “pathetic political spin,” saying Likud could join an Eisenkot-led coalition if it dropped its far-right allies and accepted his core principles, including universal national service and dismantling Hamas’s rule in Gaza.
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Eisenkot Urges Likud Lawmakers to Join Emergency Coalition as Herzog Confers Mandate
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