Next week, the deadline for submitting Knesset slates expires, after which parties can no longer merge. The anti-Netanyahu bloc is encouraged as the prime minister is scrambling to prevent right-wing votes from going to wasteStill haunted by the trauma suffered by the parties opposing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the last election, when their leaders' intransigence helped pave the way for his victory, Gadi Eisenkot and other opposition leaders are now reportedly watching the prime minister's predicament with a faint smile.