Leaders of the so-called change bloc are meeting on Tuesday morning in Herzliya to coordinate the bloc’s next steps, in the first meeting since the election, with the bloc holding 48 seats against 53 for Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp, 27 of them from Likud, with all leaders saying by Monday that they will back Gadi Eisenkot to form the next government, while Netanyahu said a clear majority of the Jewish public chose Likud as the largest party and chose him to lead the next government — Arab lists hold a record 19 seats, 8 for Ra’am and 11 for the Joint List, with Arab-Israeli turnout at some 80%, compared with 53.2% in the 2022 election, while President Isaac Herzog urged leaders to accept the result and find creative solutions to avoid a new election, and Naftali Bennett’s B’Yachad faction announced support for Eisenkot.