ISRAEL: New Knesset to Be Sworn In Tuesday as Coalition Talks Continue

Israel's 26th Knesset is due to hold its inaugural session on Tuesday, November 10, with all 120 members called to declare their allegiance as negotiations over the next government continue.

The Knesset says the formal opening session will begin at 4 p.m. Jerusalem time in the presence of President Isaac Herzog. The ceremony marks the start of the newly elected parliament, not the formation or swearing-in of a new government.

Incoming lawmakers attended an orientation day on Monday, practicing the plenum's voting system and preparing for their work in the legislature. Staff also prepared seating arrangements and faction rooms ahead of the opening.

The ceremony comes after Herzog gave Gadi Eisenkot the mandate to try to form a government. Coalition talks remain underway, with no governing agreement announced in the reports reviewed for this article.

The new parliament can begin its work while those talks continue. The choice of a governing coalition is a separate process from Tuesday's declaration of allegiance by its members.