Al Jazeera reports that Israel's main opposition leaders, meeting in Herzliya after the 27 October election left neither bloc a majority, agreed to back former military chief Gadi Eisenkot for prime minister ahead of President Isaac Herzog's coalition consultations, pledging in a joint statement to replace Benjamin Netanyahu's government "immediately" with a national emergency government. Netanyahu, whose bloc won 53 of 120 seats and who has called for a broad government under his leadership, rules out coalition with the Arab-led parties whose 19 seats could decide the outcome, and Yair Golan, the only opposition leader open to allying with them, calls excluding them racist.