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Tel Aviv residents weigh change against a unity government

Global News's election report pairs contrasting public reactions with the pledges that complicate Gadi Eisenkot's route to power.

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What’s next for Israel after election leads to political gridlock

Gil Melzer expected Israel's election to show a majority ready for change. Reuben Koolyk would prefer a unity government. Their contrasting reactions in Tel Aviv give a human starting point to Canada's Global News report, "What's next for Israel after election leads to political gridlock."

"We thought that we are the majority of people who want change in Israel," Melzer says. "The numbers show that we were wrong." Koolyk, by contrast, describes himself as relatively happy with the prospect of at least a temporary government.

Reporter Redmond Shannon explains why neither incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor challenger Gadi Eisenkot, a former Israeli military chief, has a straightforward path to governing. The report's projections put Netanyahu's right-wing coalition at 53 seats, Eisenkot's opposition bloc at 48, and Arab-Israeli parties at 19.

Those Arab parties could provide decisive support. But Nimrod Goren, president and founder of the Mitvim Institute, explains that hawkish factions within the opposition pledged not to align with them. An available parliamentary majority is therefore not necessarily a politically workable one.

The report also raises the possibility of right-wing opposition parties crossing over to support Netanyahu. Goren says such a move would not be easily accepted without some kind of emergency. Separately, the broadcast says Netanyahu has made allegations of election fraud involving Arab parties; these remain allegations, not established findings.

This was Israel's first election since the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and the ensuing Gaza war. The next procedural step, Shannon explains, is for the president to meet party leaders and invite one of them to try to form a government.

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