Israel's opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot has six weeks to form a government

He has just six weeks. That is the timeframe that Israel's opposition leader, Gadi Eskenot, has to try to form a government to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, formally giving then Eskenot the first chance to form the next government. Complex negotiations lie ahead though, no guarantee of success, as Eskenot needs to either convince Netanyahu allies or Arab parties to side. Well, we're going to cross then live to Jerusalem. We're going to talk to our correspondent, Noga Tlanopolsky, who joins us from there. Noga, I mean, he's got a mission, hasn't he? But it's going to be very tough for him. He may have to try and entice defectors from the Netanyahu bloc or shore up his own bloc and try to add members of these so-called majority Arab parties, but he may also choose another path. Gaby Eisenkot has some flexibility here. And despite the general assumption, I have to say, among Israeli media, that he's going to run out the clock on these six weeks and maybe fail to establish a new government, He has the option of setting up what's called a minority government. About one third of parliamentary democracies are actually currently run that way. He only needs a majority of those voting to vote for him to set up a government, even with just 48 seats out of the 120, as long as the other side doesn't have more votes. He doesn't need an absolute majority out of the 120. And I mentioned this option because Eisenkot. Increasingly in the last few days has been speaking of what he calls a national emergency government. He says that the very future of the state right now is at stake, that the prime minister and his ruling party's efforts to scuttle the results of the election to prevent the parliament from being seated tomorrow constitute a national emergency, that he will act as quickly as he can. So it may take six weeks and he may fail. But he may actually present a government, I would say, as soon as next week, just to be able to claim the title of prime minister for himself. And then from that role, try to shore up a wider coalition. Where does this leave Benjamin Netanyahu then, Nogar? I mean, is he just left watching from the sidelines at the moment? He is. At the moment he is. I should add to you the very curious fact that this is the 13th day in a row nobody in Israel has seen the prime minister in the flesh. He has not appeared in public since the night of election day, which was October 27th. That is a bit of a mystery. But he is sidelined right now in the final count. Eisenkot had 67 future Knesset members recommending him to form a new government, and Netanyahu was relegated to just having 46 recommendations, because he did lose one of his blocs, a party in his bloc. So right now, Netanyahu's fortunes don't look very good. Especially since even if that party rejoins him, he simply does not have the numbers to form a new government. His only way forward is if Israel were dragged into new elections. And that may be one of the main reasons that his party is refusing to recognize the election results. Noga, thanks so much. Noga Taneposki, our correspondent, joining us live there from Jerusalem.