{"id":658083,"date":"2026-10-27T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658083\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T00:46:08","slug":"netanyahu-eisenkot-unity-government-discussed-by-donald-trump-surrogates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658083\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu-Eisenkot unity government discussed by Donald Trump surrogates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surrogates for US President Donald Trump<\/a> spoke with Israeli officials about the possibility of a unity government that includes both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot, chairman of the Yishai party, The Washington Post reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

The report cited a Likud official who said, “Eisenkot<\/a> has shown he lacks the backbone and the determination that Netanyahu has, and I think Trump understands that.”<\/p>\n

“What Trump wants is a stable and reliable Israeli government that can be formed as soon as possible after the election,” the official added.<\/p>\n

According to the report, officials within the Trump administration are divided on the issue of a unity government.<\/p>\n

The report noted that Netanyahu<\/a> told US and European officials that he would push for a more moderate coalition if he partnered with Eisenkot.<\/p>\n

Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir attacked Netanyahu and Likud on Monday, claiming the party is working to weaken Otzma Yehudit ahead of the elections.<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir alleged that the Prime Minister’s Office has pledged to European countries that the next government will be a unity government without Ben-Gvir. “Instead of bringing votes from Eisenkot, they are trying to lower me below the threshold,” he said. <\/p>\n

He added that Netanyahu announced that he would not be reappointed Minister of National Security, and accused Likud of trying to form a unity government without him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrogates for US President Donald Trump spoke with Israeli officials about the possibility of a unity government that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[147752,49,54,955,85,46,58195,43,4525,2488,1032,238920],"class_list":["post-658083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2026-israeli-elections","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-news","tag-president","tag-trump-administration","tag-united-states","tag-unity-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}