Netanyahu Unity Push Tests Election Boycott

Jerusalem Post published at 13:47 IDT that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is turning his broad-national-government call into an election message aimed at ending the anti-Netanyahu political boycott. The analysis says he first made the appeal at Saturday's press conference and repeated it in Tuesday's Channel 14 interview, while a Direct Polls/i24 survey found about half of Israelis favor a broad unity government after the election. Eisenkot and Lapid rejected sitting under Netanyahu; JPost, Times of Israel, i24 and C14 also tracked reactions from Gantz, Sa'ar, Ben-Gvir and Yair Golan. Netanyahu is keeping faith with Haredi partners through Torah-study and draft legislation, making the campaign test whether a broad Zionist coalition can be built while respecting Torah observance.