Yashar Lawmakers Reportedly Reject Government Reliant on Joint List Support

Several lawmakers in Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party reportedly oppose a minority government dependent on the Joint List. The resistance was disclosed late on November 2, following a faction meeting and private conversations held in recent days. The lawmakers were not named, and the report did not specify how many opposed such an arrangement. The dissenters reportedly regarded dependence on Joint List votes as a red line and said they should not be counted among supporters of that arrangement. Sources within the faction also described frustration over uncertainty about Eisenkot’s plans for forming a government and the role he envisaged for Arab parties. The account describes individual lawmakers’ objections rather than a formal resolution adopted by the entire faction. Faction sources stressed that rejecting reliance on the Joint List did not mean agreeing to join Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc. Their stated objection concerned the parliamentary basis of a possible Eisenkot-led government; it was not presented as a decision to back Netanyahu. On November 1, a senior Joint List figure said the Joint List and Ra’am were expected to recommend Eisenkot during the president’s consultations. No formal recommendation had been announced in that report. President Isaac Herzog separately said he would receive the official election results on November 4 and then begin consultations with the parliamentary factions.