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Who Likud fears more than Eisenkot

While Gadi Eisenkot works to form a government, senior Likud ministers are quietly gaming out scenarios and one name keeps coming up as the real threat

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Behind the frantic coalition talks and the race to form a government, the ruling party has identified a new central threat. Journalist Moran Azoulay reports that senior Likud ministers are running through a series of political scenarios ahead of a packed schedule in the coming two weeks.

Senior party figures are weighing some unlikely partnerships, including joining a unity government led by Gadi Eisenkot or forming a blocking bloc with him to keep Avigdor Liberman from putting together a government.

Reading between the lines, it becomes clear that the figure troubling senior Likud officials more than anyone else is not the chairman of Yashar, but rather the chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu, Avigdor Liberman, who they perceive as the most worrying and dangerous player.

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