JERUSALEM | Xinhua |  Former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot received a presidential mandate on Sunday to form a government, giving him the first opportunity to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, after an October election stripped his right-wing coalition of a parliamentary majority. But while Eisenkot has the backing of …

Eisenkot, who has no experience navigating coalition negotiations in Israel's fragmented political landscape, must expand the opposition's 48 seats beyond Netanyahu's 53-seat bloc.