Former MK Matan Kahana, who resigned from the Knesset earlier this year to join the new party headed by former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, says that Eisenkot is in constant touch with other heads of opposition parties to discuss running on a joint slate ahead of next year’s election.
In particular, Kahana says in a radio interview cited by the Walla outlet that Eisenkot is in touch with former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who is seen as the most credible challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
When asked whether the two leaders should combine their parties, Kahana says such a union “needs to happen.”
Both Bennett and Eisenkot founded eponymous parties ahead of the elections that are due to take place by next fall. Discussions are taking place over combining slates on both sides of the political map, and in the anti-Netanyahu bloc, politicians have voiced acute concern over the possibility that fragmentation between their parties could aid the premier’s reelection.
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