Israel's former armed forces chief Benny Gantz, who Monday won a fresh shot at forming a government, is widely seen as defined more by his pragmatism and opposition to veteran Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu than concrete policies.
The 60-year-old has been in the public eye since first declaring political ambitions and running against Netanyahu in December 2018.
Within months, his centrist Blue and White party shocked
Israeli politics by matching Netanyahu's right-wing Likud in polls last April and then edging slightly ahead of it in September.