One of the first occasions on which Eshel made contact with Abbas, N12 reported, was to ask him about whether he would back Eisenkot in a vote over the draft law.
Natan Eshel, a close associate of Netanyahu, had repeated contacts with Ra'am Chairman Mansur Abbas • Contacted him before the elections, on voting day and after the results in an attempt to prevent support for the Eisenkot government | Likud: "Netanyahu was surprised, it was not done on his own initiative" (Political, Political)