Unity Key to Knesset Role

Analysts warned that the 19 seats won by Arab lists in the Knesset election could lose their influence unless the lists unified their positions and coordinated their moves during consultations on forming a government. The seats were split between the Joint Arab List, with 11, and the United Arab List, with eight. Neither Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc, which won 53 seats, nor the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot, which won 48, secured the 61 seats required for a majority. Arab lawmakers recommended that Eisenkot be tasked with forming the government, bringing the number of lawmakers recommending him to 67, compared with 46 for Netanyahu. Analysts stressed, however, that making use of this political weight would require sustained coordination, and that the seats alone did not guarantee either the formation of a government or the participation of Arab parties in it.

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