It’s time to set ego aside: Netanyahu, Eisenkot must form unity government

 

Election campaign billboards featuring Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot and Likud party chairman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside opposition leaders are displayed along a roadside in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, ahead of Israel’s upcoming general elections.
Election campaign billboards featuring Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot and Likud party chairman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside opposition leaders are displayed along a roadside in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, ahead of Israel’s upcoming general elections.
(photo credit: Sharon Leibel/Flash90)

Israelis went to the polls in extraordinary numbers on Tuesday, delivering an election result that, according to initial exit polls, left neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot with a clear path to forming a government.

The projections put both blocs around the 50-something mark, with Arab parties slowly approaching a historic 20 seats.

The figures are preliminary, and the final seat distribution could still change. Nevertheless, they raise a question that neither leader can easily avoid: What happens when two rival political camps emerge from an election without the parliamentary majority needed to govern?

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