Israel's opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot received permission from the country's president Yitzhak Herzog to form a government.
Eisenkot will officially receive his mandate on November 8 at 17:00 and will have 28 days to form a government, with a possible extension of 14 days.
If he succeeds in forming a government, it means that the era of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come to an end.