For several weeks now, reports claimed former Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot was considering entering politics, and that quite a few parties were courting the ex-general to join them. Then, on Aug. 14, Eizenkot announced he has decided to join the party headed by another former chief of staff, Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

It is still too early to determine whether Eizenkot’s decision to enter politics will be a real game changer, and whether it would enable the formation of a stable government without including former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Still, with less then three months until the Nov. 1 elections, Eizenkot could very well be the one to tip one way or another the political power scale.

Reportedly, Eizenkot had also considered an offer to take the No. 2 slot in Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party. Finally, he picked his old army buddy Gantz. He will take the No. 3 slot in the party, after Gantz and Justice Minister Gideon Saar, who merged his own New Hope party with Gantz’s Blue and White.

Now that Eizenkot has joined them, the party will be known as the State Camp. Its goal will be to move voters from the moderate right to the “anyone but Netanyahu” camp, picking up enough seats to finally put an end to the country’s long political crisis.