Israel's caretaker prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has renewed his call on Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot to hold talks on a national unity government without preconditions. He made the appeal in a recorded video released on Saturday evening.
According to Haaretz, Netanyahu said the talks should be held without preconditions. Haaretz reports that he described a narrow government, or one backed by Arab parties, in negative terms.
Clash Report says Netanyahu argued that only a unity government can remove what he called an existential Iranian threat. Both outlets give the Iran nuclear threat as his stated reason for the appeal.
The video follows the two men's security briefing on Thursday. That briefing ended with a joint statement that did not mention Iran. It is not yet clear how Eisenkot has responded.
The security cabinet is due to meet on Sunday 15 November, its first meeting since early October.