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Eisenkot leads Netanyahu in recommendations as Herzog weighs who forms Israel's government

Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot finished President Isaac Herzog's consultations with 67 recommendations to Benjamin Netanyahu's 46, after the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism declined to back the prime minister. Herzog has said he will name a candidate to form a government on Sunday.

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  1. World

    Eisenkot leads Netanyahu in recommendations as Herzog weighs who forms Israel's government

    Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot finished President Isaac Herzog's consultations with 67 recommendations to Benjamin Netanyahu's 46, after the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism declined to back the prime minister. Herzog has said he will name a candidate to form a government on Sunday.

  2. Business

    Oil swings after US midterms as traders weigh Iran war and Hormuz disruption

    Brent crude fell 8.7% on 4 November on hopes the election result would speed an end to the war with Iran, then rose back towards $100 a barrel after new tanker attacks.

  3. World

    Iranian official says Tehran sent the US a nuclear proposal via Qatar as Iran reports tanker fires in Hormuz

    A senior Iranian official, speaking anonymously to Reuters on Thursday 5 November, said Tehran had passed a nuclear proposal to Washington through Qatar but would discuss it only once the US meets seven demands. Neither the US nor Qatar has confirmed it. The same day, Iranian forces said several tankers caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz.