In a Le Monde article produced with AFP, premier hopeful Gadi Eisenkot accuses caretaker premier Benjamin Netanyahu of fuelling a "racist" campaign against Israel's Arab minority, writing on X that Arab citizens "have been subjected to a racist and aggressive campaign of delegitimization" and that maligning an entire community is unacceptable. President Isaac Herzog has tasked Eisenkot with forming a government, which Le Monde says the two Arab-majority parties, holding 19 seats, could emerge as kingmakers in — though ally Avigdor Liberman says he would leave the coalition if Arab Israelis join it.