Eisenkot quickly targets Netanyahu’s legacy in new Israeli parliament

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They include the creation of a probe on security failures that allowed the Oct 7, 2023 Hamas attack. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Former military chief Gadi Eisenkot (centre), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (bottom right), and Israeli President Isaac Herzog (bottom left) posing for a photo with other officials as Israel's 26th parliament is inaugurated at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Nov 10.

JERUSALEM - Israeli ex-army chief Gadi Eisenkot and his allies launched a legislative onslaught against caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legacy on Nov 10, as a new parliament convened in a heated first session.

Though questions still linger over who can form a government, Eisenkot’s broad left-to-right bloc wasted no time in setting the Knesset’s agenda with a green light from Arab-Israeli lawmakers, whose role has stirred up heated opposition from Netanyahu’s base and even right-wing supporters of Eisenkot.

Eisenkot’s Yashar party said it submitted a slew of proposals before the new parliament, including establishing an independent commission to investigate security failures that allowed the Hamas attack on Oct 7, 2023 – which Netanyahu has long opposed.

The party also moved for a sweeping repeal of a judicial overhaul implemented by Netanyahu’s government, which had triggered some of Israel’s largest-ever protests before being overshadowed by three years of war.

Setting the stage for legislative action, Eisenkot’s bloc announced it had enough votes in the 120-seat parliament to install a new speaker, Matan Kahana, also a former senior military figure.

The current speaker, Netanyahu ally Amir Ohana, said he had granted a request from 67 Knesset members to hold a vote for his successor on Nov 17, “despite my strong opposition to the intention of the emerging coalition”.

But neither Eisenkot nor Netanyahu – Israel’s longest-serving prime minister with nearly two decades in power – have the 61 votes needed to form a government.

Eisenkot, before his swearing-in, vowed “to form a national-emergency government as quickly as possible”.

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