Eisenkot and Liberman Meet as Change Bloc Leaders Forum Set to Convene

The meeting between party leaders comes amid an impasse within the change bloc over electing a Knesset speaker.

Yashar! leader Gadi Eisenkot and Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman met, and the forum of change bloc party heads is scheduled to convene soon, newspaper Maariv reported.

According to news website Srugim, contacts within the change bloc have reached an impasse amid political gridlock surrounding efforts to elect a Speaker of the Knesset. The meeting between the two leaders took place as part of efforts to coordinate positions among opposition factions ahead of the swearing-in of the new Knesset.

Further details regarding the outcome of the meeting and the exact timing for the convening of the bloc leaders' forum have not yet been released.