📌 Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc nominates Matan Kahana as Israel’s next Knesset speaker

🗳 Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana of Likud schedules Nov. 17 vote on his replacement after 67 lawmakers request it

✈ Kahana, a retired Israeli Air Force colonel and former F-16 squadron commander, took part in Israel’s wars in Gaza in 2008, 2012 and 2014 and in Lebanon in 2006

▪ He served as religious services minister under Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid before co-founding Yashar in 2025

🔹 Netanyahu’s opponents hold 67 of 120 seats to his camp’s 53 as coalition talks continue

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