The leader of the Israeli Ishar party, Gadi Eisenkot, expressed his willingness to form a new government for the country. Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog, after consultations in the Knesset, published a statement in which he announced that he would determine the composition of the new government by Sunday. "I want to update the Israeli public at the end of the round of consultations. I met with representatives of all factions. The conversations were open, frank and poignant. I asked difficult questions to try to force the parties, and in fact the entire public, to go beyond their usual thinking patterns and open their minds to new directions. The picture is as follows: the representatives of the factions numbering 67 members of the Knesset recommended the chairman of the YSR party, Gadi Eisenkot, while the representatives of the factions numbering 46 members of the Knesset recommended the Prime Minister and the chairman of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu. The results of the consultations seem clear, but the powers granted to me by law are to determine the ability to form a government, and this is not entirely clear due to a mutual veto both between the blocs and within the blocs themselves. I will try to find out about this ability directly and quickly with some of the party leaders during personal conversations. I intend to issue a mandate to form a government next Sunday. In these talks, I intend to turn over every stone to try to help create a stable and good government for the people of Israel," said Herzog. The centrist Eisenkot now has a real chance of becoming Israel's new prime minister, while the far-right Netanyahu looks set to retire.

The leader of the Israeli Ishar party, Gadi Eisenkot, expressed his willingness to form a new government for the country. Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog, after consultations in the Knesset, published a statement in which he announced that he would determine the composition of the new government by Sunday. "I want to update the Israeli public at the end of the round of consultations. I met with representatives of all factions. The conversations were open, frank and poignant. I asked difficult questions to try to force the parties, and in fact the entire public, to go beyond their usual thinking patterns and open their minds to new directions. The picture is as follows: the representatives of the factions numbering 67 members of the Knesset recommended the chairman of the YSR party, Gadi Eisenkot, while the representatives of the factions numbering 46 members of the Knesset recommended the Prime Minister and the chairman of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu. The results of the consultations seem clear, but the powers granted to me by law are to determine the ability to form a government, and this is not entirely clear due to a mutual veto both between the blocs and within the blocs themselves. I will try to find out about this ability directly and quickly with some of the party leaders during personal conversations. I intend to issue a mandate to form a government next Sunday. In these talks, I intend to turn over every stone to try to help create a stable and good government for the people of Israel," said Herzog. The centrist Eisenkot now has a real chance of becoming Israel's new prime minister, while the far-right Netanyahu looks set to retire.

Even despite the very active support for Netanyahu from Washington, in which Donald Trump personally participated, Gadi Eisenkot, as a very reasonable politician, seems much better than Bibi the militarist.