Political impasse in Israel.
After the parliamentary elections held on October 27, political life in Israel continues to boil over.
Thousands of people gathered on Saturday night in protest rallies in five major cities in Israel - Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, as well as Be'er Sheva, Haifa and Taiba.
Tel Aviv gathered thousands of people for a rally in HaBima Square, calling on the Israeli opposition to make a deal with Arab parties to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right cabinet.
The "Times of Israel" reported that the organizer of the opposition protest was the "Stand together" movement.
Parallel political rallies were held in Tel Aviv. Pro-Netanyahu anti-demonstrators also took part in demonstrations on Saturday. But they gathered far fewer people who took to the streets demanding that Israel not create a "government with terrorists".
The Israeli right sees the historically high voter turnout of Palestinian Israelis as electoral terrorism, and compares it to the October 7, 2023 attack, when Hamas militants stormed southern Israel, killing more than 1,200 people and taking hundreds captive.
As a result of the elections, the ultra-nationalist forces received a total of only 53 mandates, and Eisenkot's moderate bloc - 48.
That is, currently none of the parties can form a government independently in the Israeli parliament, which consists of 120 seats. However, together with the Arab parties, the opposition has a parliamentary majority of 67 seats, which is enough to topple Netanyahu from the prime ministership.
But these mandates are divided between two groups of political forces whose views are very different.
We're talking about “straight! Gadi Eisenkot, Beyhad by Naftali Bennett, The Democrats by Yair Golan and Our Home is Israel by Avigdor Lieberman.
So far, of this group, only Golan openly calls for union with Arab parties.