The anti-Netanyahu: Can Gadi Eisenkot give the world a different Israel?

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has tasked the leader of the Yashar (“Straight”) party, Gadi Eisenkot, with assembling a government after elections left no political alliance with a majority in the Knesset.

Eisenkot, a former military chief of staff, will now have 28 days, with the possibility of a 14-day extension, to put together a government before Herzog allows an alternative leader, most lik...