From Eisenkot meets Yair Golan, continuing blitz of sit-downs among opposition chiefs
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The Democrats party chairman Yair Golan met today with ex-Blue and White–National Unity party No. 2 Gadi Eisenkot to discuss returning the hostages and “the importance of coordination between the opposition parties,” a spokesman for Golan announces.
“This meeting is part of a series of meetings aimed at replacing the government and formulating the basic guidelines for the next government, ahead of the opposition party leaders’ meeting at the end of next week,” the spokesman says.
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s office announced today that party chiefs from the anti-Netanyahu so-called “change bloc” will meet on September 20 in the “first in a series of meetings aimed at shaping the basic guidelines of the next government.”
The meeting is set to bring together Eisenkot, Golan, Lapid, former prime minister Naftali Bennett, chairman of the new Bennett 2026 party; Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman; and Blue and White-National Unity chief Benny Gantz.
The announcement follows separate sit-downs held days ago by Eisenkot with both Lapid and Bennett.
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