Eisenkot-led bloc taps Yashar's Kahana for Knesset speaker, Liberman to head key defense panel

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Party leaders in the opposition bloc seeking to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that they had agreed to nominate incoming Yashar MK and former minister Matan Kahana as their candidate for Knesset Speaker, ahead of the swearing-in of the 26th Knesset.The announcement comes after agreements were reached following an ongoing dispute between party leaders in the bloc - Gadi Eisenkot (Yashar), Naftali Bennett (B'Yachad), Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu), and Yair Golan (the Democrats) - over who should hold the role, which will grant the opposition bloc greater control over the Knesset's legislative agenda in the period before a government is formed.The Yashar…

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