Israel's President Reuven Rivlin will on Monday formally ask Benny Gantz to try to form the country's next government, after the ex-military chief secured recommendations from a majority of lawmakers. "Tomorrow, around midday, the president will assign the task of forming the government to (the) head of Kachol Lavan... Benny Gantz," Rivlin's office said in a statement Sunday, using the Hebrew name for Gantz's centrist Blue and White party. There is however no guarantee that the disparate factions which recommended Gantz on Sunday can agree on terms for a stable coalition, something that proved impossible following two inconclusive polls last year. scw/bs/dwo