Elisha Medan Plans Tent Outside Knesset to Call for Unity

Likud lawmaker Elisha Medan announced on Saturday that he was heading to Jerusalem to establish a tent near the Knesset in a call for unity. He said he planned to remain there through the day and night, including in cold and rainy weather. Medan said he had made the decision that Sabbath and wanted the initiative to express the desire for unity that large parts of the public had conveyed to him. “I intend to sit in the tent day and night, in the cold and rain,” Medan said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu separately called for a national unity government on Saturday. He said his Thursday meeting with Gadi Eisenkot had strengthened his view that such a government was necessary. Netanyahu said it should include parties that support Israel’s existence as the state of the Jewish people. On November 12, Netanyahu and his military secretary, Maj. Gen. Guy Markizeno, briefed Eisenkot, chairman of Yashar, on security and diplomatic challenges. Their joint statement said the sides had agreed to continue updating one another as needed.