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  • September 26, 2026: Opposition leader Yair Lapid, Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Lieberman and Yair Golan signed a joint principles document at Lapid's Tel Aviv home on Saturday night. They pledged that until a government is formed, none of them or anyone on their behalf will attack a partner party or its leader, and to act together after the election to form a government. Within 48 hours they will set up three joint working groups on voter turnout, guidelines for the next government and messaging. The document names no candidate for prime minister; the leaders agreed to settle that after the election. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded that Eisenkot would form a left-wing government with them and the Arab parties, and that only a big Likud will stop them.

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Opposition leader Yair Lapid hosted Naftali Bennett, Yashar! chairman Gadi Eisenkot, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Lieberman and Democrats chairman Yair Golan in the sukkah of his Tel Aviv home on Saturday night, the first joint meeting of the change bloc's party leaders in the current election campaign. The bloc had announced that the meeting would coordinate its moves. On his way in, Golan wrote that the goal before them is greater than any party or personal interest, and that their disagreements must be dwarfed by the magnitude of the hour. Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz, who was not invited, placed a truck opposite Lapid's home reading "The blocs are keeping Israel stuck."

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Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of opposition leader Yair Lapid, in a navy suit and blue tie, seated with clasped hands at a white-clothed meeting table set with water bottles, glasses and orchids, listening to a dark-suited guest seen from behind, drawn from a January 2023 State Department photograph of a Jerusalem meeting; an archival image for context, not a depiction of the September 26, 2026 change-bloc gathering in the sukkah of Lapid's Tel Aviv home or of Benny Gantz's truck outsi

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  6. Eisenkot Says Ra'am Will Not Be Part of His Next Government
  7. Change Bloc Leaders Sign Pact Not to Attack Each Other, Defer Choice of PM Candidate (Updated)
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