Please, talk
Yehuda Gaon calls in an opinion piece on Netanyahu, Bennett and Eisenkot to pick up the phone to one another even before the true results are in — not to give up their positions, but to remember that there is one people and a shared fate. He holds up Begin as a model of the greatness of the hour and reads the election results as the public's call not to hand all power to one camp.
Yehuda Gaon addresses the three leaders — Benjamin Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett and Gadi Eisenkot — in an opinion piece, calling on them to pick up the phone to one another now, even before the true election results are published. He calls them "the sons of Jacob our father — Benjamin, Gad and Naphtali," and stresses that he is not asking them to give up their positions or blur their disagreements, only to remember that there is one people and a shared fate. According to him this is "a window of opportunity that will not return," and he repeats: "Please. Talk. Try." Gaon asks them not to ask "what is politically correct" but "what is correct for the people of Israel" and "what is correct for the state of Israel," and recalls the weight of responsibility — human lives, the fate of the state, and the children who will be drafted this year. As a historical precedent he presents Menachem Begin, who in 1967, on the eve of the Six-Day War, called for a national emergency government headed by David Ben-Gurion, and in 1977 offered Moshe Dayan, a clear political rival, the post of foreign minister. According to him this is "the greatness of the hour," possible if one only wants it and believes. Gaon reads the election results as the public's call not to entrust the fate of the state to one camp, and quotes "the voice of the multitude is like the voice of God" — not because the multitude is always right, but because sometimes the many seek to teach their leaders something they refuse to hear. He describes a hundred-year war with pauses in between, which changes its face and its arenas, and determines that the question asked in years to come will be what was done with the opportunity to choose unity.