🔻 In Israel, Gadi Eisenkot, the leader of Yesh Atid and the most popular opposition figure to Benjamin Netanyahu, said— in the first practical step toward forming his cabinet— that it would be possible to do so from a national unity government, even in emergency conditions.

The President of Israel, in a ceremony today, appointed Mr. Eisenkot to form a cabinet. In the hope that he can break the impasse after Israel’s parliamentary election.

In that election, the coalition supporting Netanyahu lost its majority, but none of the other parties or blocs reached the necessary threshold to form a government.

Shabnam Sha'bani reports.