Who Will Be Israel’s Next Prime Minister? Netanyahu, Eisenkot and What’s Next
Though his party and its electoral allies didn’t win the most parliamentary seats in Israel’s Oct. 27 general election, opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot has been given the first chance to form a new government and thus emerge as prime minister. That was after Israeli president Isaac Herzog concluded the former military chief had the best shot at forming a ruling coalition that can survive a requisite vote of confidence in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.

