Tzvika Mor Calls for Unity Government Ahead of First Knesset Swearing-In

Tzvika Mor, an incoming Religious Zionism lawmaker and chairman of the Tikva Forum, called for a unity government on Tuesday morning as he arrived at the Knesset ahead of his first declaration of allegiance. He described forming such a government as the new parliament’s most urgent task and said voters wanted the parties to work together after both sides had sought an election victory. Asked whether Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot’s invitation for Religious Zionism to join a government he would lead was genuine, Mor did not give a direct answer. He said the matter would be resolved in negotiating rooms rather than through the media, and urged the leaders of the two largest parties to sit together and reach agreement. Mor listed the Iranian threat, continued fighting in Gaza, the security situation in Judea and Samaria, and preparations for immigration from Europe among the challenges requiring cooperation. He invoked Herzl and Ben-Gurion as examples of leaders who put difficult disagreements aside to address immediate challenges. “I hope to be a faithful representative of my voters and of the Jewish people as a whole,” Mor said. He also recalled his grandparents surviving the Holocaust and arriving with tattooed numbers and the clothes they wore, saying they would have been proud to see their grandson enter parliament.