Secular right-winger Lieberman and Naftali Bennett might have a chance to outplay election front-runner Gadi Eisenkot and lead a coalition without the center-left and Arab parties. Eisenkot would almost certainly join as a junior partnerIt was long a basic assumption in Israel's parliamentary system that the leader of the biggest party becomes prime minister if he or she can assemble a coalition. Yet in 2021, Naftali Bennett, at the time leader of the right-wing Yamina party, became premier despite winning only seven seats, shattering the norm.