JerusalemBenjamin Netanyahu still commands Israel’s security services without a majority.
Gadi Eisenkot has 28 days to find 61 votes, and his bloc holds 48.
Under Article 40 of the Basic Law, only a cabinet vote can launch a new war.
Netanyahu cannot pass legislation to shield himself from his corruption trial.
Eisenkot needs the 19 Arab lawmakers or the 13 ultra-Orthodox seats before his clock runs out.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 350+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story differently.
- Al Jazeera Online
- frames Netanyahu's caretaker status through Ehab Jabareen's analysis that opponents need an agreement to remove him, so his survival rests on their divisions
- Al-Monitor
- details the 120-seat swearing-in math and the opposition's plan to prioritize a commission on the October 7 security failures under Netanyahu
- Dawn leans critical
- frames Palestinian citizens of Israel as kingmakers and argues Eisenkot's stance on Hamas and two states is no better for Palestinians than Netanyahu's
Sources: Al Jazeera Online, Al-Monitor, Dawn