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Netanyahu needs both Bennett and Lieberman, Tuchfeld argues

The political commentator sees another election as Netanyahu's preferred route while Eisenkot attempts to assemble a coalition.

Channel: C14 Hebrew channel ·

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0:15Tuchfeld expects Eisenkot to receive the first mandate and seek support from ultra-Orthodox and Arab parties.
0:52He argues that potential coalition partners fear instability that could enable Netanyahu to return.
2:08Tuchfeld discusses alleged foreign election interference and investigations he attributes to Shin Bet and Mossad.
3:07He says Netanyahu needs both Bennett and Lieberman for a majority, but considers their joining unlikely.
5:26Asked about Iran and emergency government, Tuchfeld says the existing administration continues until another replaces it.

Neither Naftali Bennett nor Avigdor Lieberman alone would give Benjamin Netanyahu a parliamentary majority, according to political commentator Mati Tuchfeld. He argues that Israel's prime minister would need both, and considers that combination unlikely because of their commitments to voters and the public cost of reversing course.

Speaking on Israel's Now 14 (C14), Tuchfeld presents two competing paths out of the post-election impasse: Gadi Eisenkot attempting to form a government, and Netanyahu trying to bring about another election. The segment is political analysis, not an announcement of a coalition agreement or a decision to return to the polls.

Eisenkot, a former Israeli military chief who led the Yashar party into the election as Netanyahu's main challenger, is Tuchfeld's predicted first recipient of the president's mandate to form a government. In Israel's parliamentary system, that mandate gives a politician the opportunity to assemble a governing coalition, rather than automatically making them prime minister.

Tuchfeld portrays Eisenkot as willing to make substantial concessions to ultra-Orthodox and Arab parties. He argues that potential partners' chief concern is whether such a government could survive: a collapse, in his assessment, could open the way for Netanyahu's return.

The commentator predicts that Netanyahu will pursue fresh elections because he expects the right to gain support in another vote. He connects that possibility to what he describes as Shin Bet and Mossad investigations into suspected foreign interference and funding from Qatar and Turkey, as well as possible security developments. These are allegations and scenarios presented in the broadcast, not established findings of interference.

Host Tal Meir also asks whether a confrontation with Iran could produce an emergency government. Tuchfeld responds that the existing government continues in a caretaker capacity until replaced. He argues that Arab parties would not join an emergency coalition conducting a war against Iran, distinguishing the continuation of Netanyahu's existing administration from the formation of a new government.

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