Gadi Eisenkot: The former Israeli military chief who could topple Netanyahu

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Yet it is a major challenge for a man relatively untested in Israel's hardscrabble tradition of coalition building.
51% : If Eisenkot can convince them to join his coalition, he could gain enough seats to form a majority in the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
50% : While at times he has emphasised diplomacy as a way to address Israel's security challenges, he is also credited with formulating Israel's so‑called "Dahiyeh Doctrine," named after the area in Beirut's southern suburbs where the Hezbollah militant group has a stronghold.
49% : He spent four decades in Israel's military.
48% : Having commanded some of Israel's toughest military battles, he now faces Netanyahu, who has repeatedly shown an almost uncanny ability to survive cutthroat Israeli politics.
47% : " Preliminary results from Israel's elections commission on Wednesday have since shown the prime minister's party pulling ahead, but without a clear majority.
47% : In June 2024, Eisenkot followed a colleague out of the cabinet, writing in his resignation letter that Netanyahu was letting politics influence decision making, harming Israel's ability to achieve its war goals.
43% : Eisenkot's Yashar party have a clear path to victory - but will have to align with Israel's Arab-led parties Israel's former military chief, a hawkish, reserved and unpolished figure, has a viable chance of unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
42% : Israel then launched a war in Gaza that has killed over 74,000 Palestinians, according to the territory's health ministry.
39% : Thousands of citizens who flew into Israel to vote in the first round might be unable to return for a second, and Arab parties would likely suffer from lower turnout, too.
39% : It's a military strategy advocating using disproportionate power against any entity that fires on Israel, no matter how small or insignificant.
38% : After the Hamas attacks on Israel 7 October, 2023, Eisenkot took on a role as an observer in Netanyahu's war Cabinet.
36% : In a bid to prevent such defections, his party has asked Israel's Arab parties to publicly profess certain principles: that Israel is a Jewish and democratic state, guided by the Israeli declaration of independence; that Hamas is a terrorist organisation that should be disarmed and demolished; and that ultra-Orthodox Jews and Palestinian citizens of Israel must no longer be exempt from Israel's mandatory military draft.
36% : Eisenkot is seen as an antidote to Netanyahu's Israel Eisenkot has halting English and comes from a working-class family.

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