JerusalemGadi Eisenkot could win 67 of 120 Knesset recommendations.
Arab parties hold 19 seats, but the Joint List says it will not join his government.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc won 53 seats and the opposition 48, so neither reaches 61, and no coalition deal exists.
Avigdor Lieberman refuses any government that includes Arab parties or relies on their votes.
President Isaac Herzog holds consultations Wednesday and Thursday, then names who gets 28 days to form a government.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 100+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story differently.
- TRT World
- counts the seat math for Eisenkot (67 vs 53 for Netanyahu's bloc) from the Arab-party recommendations still pending
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- frames the Arab-party endorsement as a trap for Eisenkot from the right, tied to anti-Arab racism in Netanyahu's campaign and Arab MKs' arrests since October 7
- Al-Monitor
- notes that Bennett, Lieberman and Golan are recommending Eisenkot without claiming the premiership themselves, a declaration they had refused to make until now
Sources: TRT World, Al Jazeera Online, Al-Monitor