Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center right) and his wife, Sara, attend the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Atarot Heritage Center at a disused airport in East Jerusalem, near the separation barrier with Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on July 5, 2026. (Credit: Ilia Yefimovich/AFP)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be fighting for his political survival on Oct. 27, in a parliamentary election — the first since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack — that is shaping up to be the most perilous of his career.The exact date of the vote had remained uncertain since the Knesset voted to dissolve itself in May. In the end, the prime minister’s coalition chose the latest date allowed by law. The latest polls point to an unprecedented political landscape: Likud is losing ground, Netanyahu’s right-wing and far-right coalition is no longer certain to retain its majority, and Gadi Eisenkot, a former Israeli army chief of staff, has emerged as the man of the moment. Bibi in a bind Naftali Bennett, the far-right chameleon seeking to replace Netanyahu Even so, the fall of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister is far from...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be fighting for his political survival on Oct. 27, in a parliamentary election — the first since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack — that is shaping up to be the most perilous of his career.The exact date of the vote had remained uncertain since the Knesset voted to dissolve itself in May. In the end, the prime minister’s coalition chose the latest date allowed by law. The latest polls point to an unprecedented political landscape: Likud is losing ground, Netanyahu’s right-wing and far-right coalition is no longer certain to retain its majority, and Gadi Eisenkot, a former Israeli army chief of staff, has emerged as the man of the moment. Bibi in a bind Naftali Bennett, the far-right chameleon seeking to replace Netanyahu Even so, the fall of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister...
