A former military chief and Netanyahu rival has been chosen to attempt to form a new government following an inconclusive election in Israel. Gadi Eisenkot hopes to assemble a coalition capable of making him prime minister, succeeding Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n
Neither candidate secured a clear majority, leaving the path forward uncertain.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> The New York Times \u2014 Eisenkot, Netanyahu Rival and Opposition Leader, Tapped to Try to Form Government<\/a>. Also reported by Fox News<\/a>, CBS News<\/a>, MS NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former military chief and Netanyahu rival has been chosen to attempt to form a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[471,367,470,111,368],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-coalition-government","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-israel","tag-israeli-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}