Yesh party chairman MK Gadi Eisenkot appealed Wednesday evening to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and Knesset legal adviser Adv. Sagit Afik, asking them to recognize him in practice as opposition leader so he can receive routine security briefings in light of security developments and fears of escalation with Iran.
The appeal came after Eisenkot sent a letter earlier in the day to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning against making policy and security decisions during the transition period and calling on him to act with responsibility and caution.
In his letter to Netanyahu, titled "Routine security update regarding the threat picture at hand," Eisenkot wrote: "Israel finds itself in a challenging and volatile security reality, as the outgoing prime minister himself has repeatedly testified in a series of public statements."
Eisenkot also addressed the governmental transition period, stressing that it requires extra caution in decisions affecting state security.
Later in the letter, Eisenkot warned: "In the legal situation in which we find ourselves, there is at this hour no opposition leader. Therefore, in the absence of a new opposition leader, and as one who has been tasked with forming a government by the president, it is proper that I receive a routine, orderly and comprehensive security update, as well as on what is being done in the intelligence system."
