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Joint List Backs Eisenkot for Israeli PM, Giving Him 67 Endorsements to Netanyahu’s 46

Israel’s Arab-led Joint List officially recommended opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to form a government during consultations at President Isaac Herzog’s residence, lifting his endorsements to 67 of the 120 Knesset seats against 46 for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The 11 seat grouping said it hopes its endorsement will produce a minority government backed by Arab lawmakers as a “protective bloc” from outside the cabinet. When Herzog asked whether the faction would pull its support during a major military conflict involving Iran or Hamas, Joint List chairman Yousef Jabareen said, “The public did not elect us to topple Netanyahu only to bring him back,” while senior lawmaker Ahmad Tibi added that the party is “not providing a ‘safety net’ only to bring down the government two or three months later.”

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Rapid Eisenkot Mandate
President Isaac Herzog asks Gadi Eisenkot to form the next Israeli government after the 67 endorsements make him the clear parliamentary favorite. The most likely path is a centrist-led government backed by Yisrael Beiteinu, Arab parties, and anti-Netanyahu factions, though coalition discipline remains a constraint.
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Fragile Bargaining Phase
Eisenkot receives the mandate but negotiations become protracted over security policy, budgets for Arab municipalities, religion-and-state issues, and cabinet portfolios. The base case remains eventual formation, but the process is noisy and vulnerable to defections.
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Netanyahu Countermove
Benjamin Netanyahu tries to turn the endorsement gap into a procedural fight, arguing that Eisenkot’s support is too ideologically fractured to produce a durable cabinet. This path keeps Netanyahu politically relevant but requires either legal pressure, parliamentary obstruction, or unlikely defections.
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Another Election Looms
The endorsement math proves insufficient to produce a durable coalition, forcing Israel back toward another election cycle. This is less likely than a government being formed, but the ideological spread of the 67-seat anti-Netanyahu bloc leaves the risk meaningful.
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Security Crisis Intervenes
A sharp security incident in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, or Jerusalem changes the coalition calculus before Eisenkot can finalize a government. This is a lower-probability tail scenario, but Israeli politics can shift quickly when security events dominate the agenda.
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