Despite uniting behind Eisenkot ahead of Herzog’s formal consultations on Nov 4, the opposition leaders remain divided over how to secure a 61 seat majority after Netanyahu’s bloc won 53 seats and Arab-led parties took a record 19. Golan supports relying on the Arab factions, while Bennett and Liberman oppose a coalition dependent on their votes, leaving Eisenkot to explore a minority government or outreach to ultra-Orthodox parties. Leaders of the Joint List and Ra’am met separately to coordinate efforts to topple Netanyahu, with Joint List Chairman Yousef Jabareen confirming his 11 seat party will not join a cabinet over military policies toward Palestinians but could back an alternative government from the outside, and senior lawmaker Ahmad Tibi saying that “our first, second, and third priority is to bring down the Netanyahu government.”

In a Nov 4 statement addressed to the US and international allies, Eisenkot said Israelis voted for change and pledged to work closely with President Donald Trump’s administration to strengthen bipartisan US-Israel ties and regional security. Eisenkot previously opened coalition membership to any lawmaker who accepts four conditions, including recognizing Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, mandating universal military or civilian service, and backing the destruction of Hamas’s rule in Gaza, terms that Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas indicated would not block his eight seat party from joining.

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