A Guardian report says Israel's president has tasked Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party and Benjamin Netanyahu's strongest rival, with forming a government after last month's deadlocked election left Netanyahu's coalition without a majority. Eisenkot, Israel's military chief of staff from 2015 to 2019, vowed to crack down on extremist West Bank settlers and end Hamas's rule in Gaza, though it remains unclear whether his bloc would accept the Arab lists' support.