Netanyahu warns against a government with supporters of terrorism and calls for national unity
Benjamin NetanyahuPrime Minister of Israel and Likud chairman, recommended by factions totaling 46 Knesset members
In a recorded video address released hours before the President's office announced its decision, Netanyahu says some intend to hurriedly swear in a government with supporters of terrorism and calls instead for a national unity government that includes the parties of his national camp.
“Already this coming week, there are those who intend to hurriedly swear in a government with supporters of terrorism”
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Herzog tasks Gadi Eisenkot, not Netanyahu, with forming Israel's next government; Netanyahu had called for a national unity government
On November 7, 2026, Israeli President Isaac Herzog announced that he would task Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot with forming the next government. Factions totaling 67 members of the incoming 120-seat Knesset, including the two Arab-led lists, had recommended Eisenkot, and factions totaling 46 had recommended Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hours before the announcement, Netanyahu called in a recorded video for a national unity government that would include his bloc and warned against swearing in a government with what he called supporters of terrorism. Eisenkot said it was time to form a national emergency government.
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Recorded video address in Hebrew posted on Benjamin Netanyahu's X account under the caption "National unity" about two and a half hours before the Office of the President announced its decision. In it Netanyahu calls for a national unity government and warns against a government that depends on parties he calls supporters of terrorism.
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Ynet News report on Herzog's announcement that he would task Gadi Eisenkot with forming the government, including English translations of Netanyahu's recorded address calling for a national unity government and of the Yashar party's response to it.
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In a recorded address, Netanyahu said it was a time for unity, that he had called for it during the election campaign and afterward, and that it was the will of the people. Ynet reports that he claimed Eisenkot intended to establish a government as early as the coming week that would rely on Arab parties.
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Netanyahu called for a national unity government that includes all the parties of the national camp and all the Zionist parties that want to protect the country. Eisenkot's Yashar party called the address a hysterical speech and said Likud and its partners were welcome to join a government under Eisenkot if they broke their alliance with what Yashar called the extremists.
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The reference point is President Herzog's decision to task Gadi Eisenkot, rather than Benjamin Netanyahu, with forming Israel's next government. In a video released hours before the announcement, Netanyahu argues against a government he says Eisenkot intends to form with the backing of Arab parties and calls instead for a national unity government that includes his own bloc. That rejects the course the decision opens, though he does not mention Herzog.
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