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National Unity MK Gadi Eizenkot speaks at a conference organized by the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on November 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 16, 2025, 7:18 pm
Gadi Eisenkot founds new party, two months after resigning from Knesset
After quitting Benny Gantz’s National Unity, the former IDF chief unveils ‘Yashar! With Eisenkot,’ joined by senior political, military, and tech figures
By Ariela Karmel
Then-war cabinet ministers Gadi Eisenkot (right) and Benny Gantz hold a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 4, 2025, 12:59 pm
Eisenkot urges Gantz to resign, as polls show his party failing to enter Knesset
Blasting Blue and White leader’s attempt to join Netanyahu’s coalition, his former partner says PM to blame for lack of hostage deal, not far-right parties
By Sam Sokol
MK Orit Farkash-Hacohen poses for a picture at a home in Jerusalem, June 9, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 24, 2025, 4:48 pm
In latest blow to Gantz, MK Farkash-Hacohen resigns from Blue and White
Centrist lawmaker hopes to join forces with Gadi Eisenkot, says she won’t resign from Knesset as her seat would go to coalition party that Blue and White was previously allied with
By Sam Sokol
This combination photograph created on July 2, 2025 shows (L) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 30, 2025, and (R) MK Benny Gantz on June 30, 2025. (Maayan Toaf / GPO and Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 2, 2025, 9:35 pm
Coalition said mulling asking Gantz to join if far-right parties bolt over Gaza deal
Report says embattled centrist leader is in contact with PM over potential entry into government, offsetting threats by Smotrich, Ben Gvir to bring it down over potential truce
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
MK Gadi Eisenkot en route to a press conference after announcing his resignation from the Knesset and his departure from the National Unity party, in Tel Aviv, July 1, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
July 1, 2025, 11:54 pm
After quitting Knesset, Eisenkot says he is working to build a ‘governing alternative’
Says Netanyahu must resign because of October 7; MK Matan Kahana, who has followed Eisenkot out of National Unity party, says he will try to broker an alliance with Bennett
By Sam Sokol
MK Gadi Eisenkot (right) and National Unity leader MK Benny Gantz at a party meeting in the Knesset, on March 24, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 30, 2025, 11:29 pm
In political shakeup, National Unity No. 2 Eisenkot to leave the party, quit Knesset
Popular lawmaker said unconvinced by primaries proposal by centrist opposition party’s leader Gantz; Lapid said to try and woo Eisenkot with leadership of Yesh Atid party
By ToI Staff
Benny Gantz and other National Union MKs visit the city of Tamra on June 16, 2025, after it was hit in a Iranian missile strike. (Courtesy National Unity)
June 17, 2025, 6:19 pm
Opposition MKs visit Arab town where four residents were killed by Iranian missile
Benny Gantz says attacks don’t distinguish between Jewish and Arab towns; Yair Golan expresses solidarity with residents; Gilad Kariv pledges to build better reality for all Israelis
By Sam Sokol and Michael Horovitz
National Unity MK Gadi Eisenkot attends a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on March 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 18, 2025, 4:20 am
Eisenkot says establishment of Palestinian state ‘irrelevant’ in post-Oct. 7 reality
The National Unity no. 2 says similarly that there’s no reason to discuss resettling Gaza, and accuses Netanyahu of turning war into ‘divisive conflict’ within Israeli society
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), Justice Minister Yariv Levin (to his right) and other ministers in the Knesset plenum during a vote on a law to remake Israel's judicial appointments process, March 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 12:11 pm
Knesset passes law greatly boosting political control over appointment of judges
Legislation changing composition of Judicial Selection Committee approved 67-1 after opposition lawmakers boycott final vote. ‘Collapse of the last brake on democracy,’ says Yesh Atid
By Sam Sokol
(L-R) Democrats chair Yair Golan, National Unity chair Benny Gantz, Yesh Atid chair Yair Lapid, and Yisrael Beytenu party Avigdor Liberman hold a joint press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 21, 2025, 12:30 pm
Opposition parties, NGOs petition High Court to intervene in Shin Bet chief’s firing
Lawmakers and several civil society groups allege ‘ulterior motives’ amid probe into Netanyahu aides’ ties to Qatar, pressure for state commission of inquiry into Oct. 7
By ToI Staff
Then-war cabinet ministers Gadi Eisenkot (right) and Benny Gantz hold a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 3, 2025, 6:59 am
Eisenkot said seeking center-left party union in next elections, may want to lead it
With his relationship with party chief Gantz souring, Haaretz says National Unity MK is talking to Opposition Leader Lapid, Democrats head Golan for bloc to counter ex-PM Bennett
By ToI Staff
Israelis cast their votes at a voting station in Tel Aviv, during the Knesset elections, March 23, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 25, 2025, 12:22 am
Study finds ‘consistent recovery’ in Likud’s prospects as voters return to PM’s party
As of December 2024, 54% of voters of Netanyahu’s ruling party planned on supporting it in the next election, according to Israel Democracy Institute
By Sam Sokol
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a meeting of his Religious Zionism parliamentary faction, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 24, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 24, 2025, 11:24 pm
Smotrich claims credit for decision to delay release of Palestinian prisoners
Opposition’s Gantz, Liberman blast PM for playing politics at expense of national security, citing botched bus bombing terror plot; IDF demands Haredi draft
By Sam Sokol
Then-war cabinet ministers Gadi Eisenkot (right) and Benny Gantz hold a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 18, 2025, 5:15 am
Poll suggests growing support for Eisenkot to replace Gantz as National Unity leader
Channel 12 survey says parties opposed to current coalition would win a Knesset majority if Bennett runs with a new party and Eisenkot replaces Gantz atop their faction’s slate
By ToI Staff
Lawmakers and ministers listen to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addresses the first plenum session of the Knesset’s winter 2024 legislative session, October 28, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
January 22, 2025, 6:39 pm
Coalition votes down legislation on state Oct. 7 probe, annexation of Jordan Valley
Ministers express support in principle for annexing part of West Bank but say the process must involve US, and call opposition bill supported by Otzma Yehudit ‘just trolling’
By Sam Sokol
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