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Eisenkot proposes inquiry into October 7 attack as Israel's parliament convenes
Gadi Eisenkot's party proposed an independent inquiry into security failures before Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
The proposals were submitted as Israel's new parliament, the Knesset, opened its first session on Tuesday.
Eisenkot has been tasked with forming a government, but neither he nor caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has the 61 seats needed to do so.
Eisenkot's party also proposed repealing Netanyahu's judicial overhaul, which had prompted large protests before the war.
Eisenkot's bloc says it has enough votes to replace the parliament's speaker, with a vote set for next Tuesday.
Support from Arab-Israeli lawmakers is expected to help the bloc, though cooperation with Arab parties has drawn opposition from Netanyahu's supporters.
The proposals have not yet become law, and talks over forming a government are continuing.
Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party proposed an independent inquiry into security failures that allowed Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack.
The proposal was submitted as Israel’s new parliament convened in a tense opening session on Tuesday, November 10.
Yashar also proposed repealing a judicial overhaul implemented by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Eisenkot and Netanyahu both lack the 61 votes needed to form a government.
The parties also clashed over whether Arab-Israeli lawmakers would support a new government.
- Who
- Gadi Eisenkot and his Yashar party proposed the inquiry. Benjamin Netanyahu has long opposed it.
- What
- Yashar proposed an independent commission to investigate security failures that allowed Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack.
- When
- Tuesday, November 10, 2026, as the new parliament convened.
- Where
- Israel’s Knesset, the country’s parliament.
- Why
- To investigate the security failures that allowed the October 7 attack. The sources do not state a more specific reason for the proposal.
Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party
Benjamin Netanyahu
October 7 inquiry
Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party
Yashar proposed an independent commission to investigate the security failures that allowed the attack.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu has long opposed an independent commission.
Judicial overhaul
Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party
Yashar moved for a sweeping repeal of the judicial overhaul.
Benjamin Netanyahu
The overhaul was implemented by Netanyahu’s government; the sources do not state his response to this repeal proposal.
Hamas carried out an attack that Yashar said was enabled by security failures.
Israel’s new parliament convened, and Yashar submitted proposals including an independent inquiry.
A vote on replacing Knesset speaker Amir Ohana was scheduled.
- Proposed inquiry
- Independent commission into security failures linked to the October 7, 2023 attack
- Proposing party
- Yashar, led by Gadi Eisenkot
- Parliament
- Knesset, with 120 seats
- Government threshold
- 61 votes needed to form a government
- Speaker vote
- Scheduled for next Tuesday at the request of 67 Knesset members
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What people are saying
to form a national-emergency government as quickly as possible.
shameful
In the very near future, we're going to be confronted by international pressure to accept a nuclear-armed Iran and the preservation of this terror regime that seeks to annihilate us
do everything to avoid a repeat election