Eisenkot Seeks to Break Netanyahu Bloc by Engaging Ultra-Orthodox Parties
Translated & summarized from Channel 13 by baba
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- Gadi Eisenkot is negotiating with ultra-Orthodox parties to break the Netanyahu bloc.
- The effort aims to exploit changes within the United Torah Judaism party.
- Eisenkot met with a senior Belz Hasidic community figure.
- The strategy avoids immediate commitments on the conscription law.
- Neither political bloc has yet secured a majority of 61 mandates.
With only 24 days remaining until the elections and neither bloc reaching the 61-mandate threshold, Gadi Eisenkot, chairman of the "Yashar" party, is engaged in discussions with figures from ultra-Orthodox parties in an effort to dismantle the bloc supporting Binyamin Netanyahu. Eisenkot is attempting to leverage recent personnel changes within the United Torah Judaism list to create divisions within the pro-Netanyahu bloc. To this end, Eisenkot met with Elyakim Stark, a senior figure in the Belz Hasidic community, even before Stark's official placement on the party's Knesset list was decided. Eisenkot's initiative focuses on drawing the ultra-Orthodox factions away from their close cooperation with the Likud party, without offering political assurances on the conscription law. This law is considered a major stumbling block in the relations between the ultra-Orthodox parties and the center-left bloc.
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