KAN11 — broadcast 20261105 070000 UTC 85 transcript segments Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:21] the round of consultations with representatives of the parties elected [00:00:24] to the Knesset renewed today in preparation for the task of forming [00:00:27] the government. This is today. [00:00:33] United Torah Judaism arrived there a short [00:00:34] while ago. [00:00:37] Yes, hello Ronnie, and just now representatives of United Torah Judaism are conversing [00:00:41] with the President of the State. MK [00:00:44] Goldknopf is speaking with Herzog now, and before that we heard [00:00:47] MK Pindrus speaking with the President and telling him that any [00:00:51] government that is formed will need to prioritize [00:00:54] and put at the top of its agenda the regulation of [00:00:57] the status of Torah students. Pindrus says this is not [00:01:01] possible, this situation, this reality in which Torah students are persecuted. [00:01:05] Herzog replies and says: Currently there is no legal arrangement that allows [00:01:08] a total exemption from conscription for an entire society, and Herzog adds [00:01:12] that because of the war there are growing needs [00:01:15] for resources and manpower. [00:01:18] We need to say, Ronnie, that the members of the United Torah Judaism [00:01:21] delegation arrived here, but there is one representative who did not arrive, and that is MK [00:01:25] Porush, and this is because Porush, unlike [00:01:28] the other recommenders, wishes not to abstain but [00:01:32] to support Netanyahu. He did not come here for this consultation at the President's [00:01:35] Residence. We actually need to hear the official position of United Torah Judaism [00:01:39] to abstain from recommending any candidate to form a government. [00:01:42] And we will remind you, Ronnie, that in fact these recommendations by [00:01:46] the members of United Torah Judaism opened the round today. We already saw yesterday [00:01:50] the members of Religious Zionism and Shas and Otzma [00:01:53] and Yisrael Beiteinu arriving here at the President's Residence to submit [00:01:56] their candidate to form the government. [00:02:00] Who will receive the mandate today? After [00:02:02] the members of United Torah Judaism, we are expected to see here Otzma [00:02:06] Yehudit, also the members of the Arab parties Ra'am and Hadash-Ta'al, [00:02:10] also the Democrats and later today also Together [00:02:13] Right, and finally the party that received the most mandates according to the true results, [00:02:17] the Likud. At the end of this round, Ronnie, the President [00:02:20] of the State will have to decide whom he will first entrust with the task of forming [00:02:23] the government, when [00:02:27] Herzog is actually supposed to be appointed by. [00:02:30] The question is not who has the most recommenders, but who has the best [00:02:33] chance of forming a government. He has, according to the law, [00:02:36] a week to decide whom he will give this mandate [00:02:40] to form the government, and we must say, Ronnie, that we already heard the President say yesterday [00:02:43] here at the President's Residence, I ask everyone to put all boycotts aside, [00:02:47] all that they said, all those they said they would not be interested in forming a government with, [00:02:51] in order to still bring about the formation of a stable government [00:02:54] in Israel as soon as possible, [00:03:04] said on Kan Reshet B that his party will recommend to President Herzog [00:03:08] former Chief of Staff Eisenkot to form the government. Yaara Shapira, good morning, you [00:03:11] reported yesterday that the Joint List is also expected to recommend Eisenkot under [00:03:15] certain conditions. Yes, Ronnie, they haven't officially announced it yet, but [00:03:19] Ra'am has already announced that it will recommend Gadi Eisenkot and do it for free without [00:03:22] preconditions. In contrast, the Joint List will [00:03:26] prepare a list of demands in return for supporting moves [00:03:30] in the Knesset, including the appointment of the Speaker of the Knesset, and yesterday there was already [00:03:34] a consultation on this matter with the committee of heads of Arab authorities, where among [00:03:37] other things, one of the demands raised there is to receive the [00:03:41] chairmanship of one of the central committees in the Knesset, either [00:03:44] Finance or Constitution or Education, in addition [00:03:48] to the other demands in the civilian spheres [00:03:51] that the Joint List raises from time to time. If this [00:03:55] is indeed a demand in return for the appointment of the Speaker of the Knesset, [00:03:58] it will be a decision from. [00:04:02] for the change bloc to accept. And now for the weather forecast immediately after the forecast is broadcast courtesy of [00:04:14] Bereshit Protected Housing in the Jerusalem mountains, and now [00:04:17] in the salon without a deposit. [00:04:30] The forecast is broadcast courtesy of [00:04:33] Bereshit Protected Housing in the Jerusalem mountains, and now [00:04:37] in the path without a deposit. [00:04:40] That's all for our news update for this hour. Immediately, Chen Lieberman and Gili [00:04:43] Cohen on Kan News on Reshet B. [00:05:07] Residence. Currently, we are observing the first [00:05:11] recommenders who arrived at the President's Residence. The United Torah Judaism faction, who a [00:05:15] short while ago told President Herzog: We have decided not [00:05:18] to recommend any Knesset member to form the government. We saw here [00:05:22] Knesset member Pindrus say that the rabbis instructed us not [00:05:26] to recommend anyone, and you know, we've been seeing [00:05:29] President Herzog since yesterday conversing with [00:05:32] the representatives of the factions, and Herzog is talking here with the representatives of [00:05:36] United Torah Judaism and says, "I greatly appreciate the Haredi public and Torah [00:05:39] study, but we are dealing with the question of whether it is possible to maintain [00:05:43] a society of learners in the current reality, a reality of war." And then Knesset member [00:05:47] Pindrus tells Herzog, "We [00:05:49] expect that any government that is formed will prioritize the issue [00:05:53] of regulating the status of Torah students, [00:05:56] because such a situation of persecution of Torah students is an impossible thing."