New Israeli Parliament to Take Aim at Netanyahu as Eisenkot Seeks Government
Eisenkot needs 61 votes to become prime minister as allies seek a commission on the Oct. 7 attack and new parliamentary leadership.
- On Tuesday, Israel's Parliament, the Knesset, convened as Gadi Eisenkot vowed to rapidly form a new government to replace caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- President Isaac Herzog gave Eisenkot the initial mandate on Sunday, November 8, 2026, starting a 28-day clock to build a coalition with a possible 14-day extension.
- Eisenkot's bloc secured enough votes to install Matan Kahana as speaker with Arab-Israeli support, though Avigdor Liberman refuses to join coalitions relying on such backing.
- Allies plan to immediately use legislative power to launch a commission investigating security failures under Netanyahu that allowed the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack.
- Forming a majority remains complex; Eisenkot needs 61 votes while Netanyahu holds 46 seats, and Mansour Abbas, leader of the Raam party, said he aspires to be part of the solution.
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Israel's newly elected lawmakers were sworn in on the first day of the new parliament, amid ongoing political wrangling over the country's future government. Caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed his call for a national unity government, while Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party demanded an investigation into security lapses before the October 7, 2023 attack. Netanyahu justified his call by warning about Iran's nuclear program and expecte…
The new Parliament of Israel took office this Tuesday (10) in the midst of a political impasse, after the legislative elections of 27 October withdrew from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his parliamentary majority, without guaranteeing the opponents the necessary votes to form a government.
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TyposthesThe opposition under Gandhi Eisenkot is attempting to form a government, while Netanyahu's coalition has lost its parliamentary majority.
AGI - Israel looks for the political turning point. A "national government of emergency as soon as possible" but without compromising the principles that inspired the election campaign. On the day of the inauguration of the new Israeli parliament that came out of the ballot boxes on 27 October, the prime minister in charge Gadi Eisenkot announces short times for the birth of the new executive.
Gadi Eisenkot committed on Tuesday to form a new Government "as quickly as possible, to replace his rival, Benjamin Netanyahu, shortly before the first session of a deeply reorganized Knesset (Israeli Parliament).
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