Gadi Eisenkot

Katz and Netanyahu reject reports of plans to dismiss IDF chief Eyal Zamir amid tensions over Iran, as Eisenkot weighs in ahead of Tuesday's elections.

Likud claims Eisenkot’s campaign manager broke election law by sharing a Polymarket forecast giving Eisenkot a 52% chance of becoming prime minister, versus 28% for Netanyahu.

The current government has many naysayers, but nobody can deny that what they have achieved on the battlefield is historic. However, the progress could unravel if the missions are not completed.

With less than a day remaining before the vote begins, political figures are considering several possible scenarios, including a government with the support of Arab parties or another election.

Foremost among these plans is the possibility of a historic normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia, a prospect difficult to envision advancing while Ben-Gvir and Smotrich sit at the cabinet table.

Since the October 7 Hamas attacks in 2023, the Tel Aviv stock market has soared 130%, far outpacing Wall Street's 80% gain, while the shekel has climbed 25%, one of the world's strongest performances.

More than four-fifths of respondents to the IDI survey for first-time voters described the opportunity to vote as either “fairly meaningful” or “very meaningful.”

"If I put this ballot in the box, what government, policies, and political reality am I helping create?"

Supporting a change in government does not justify dismissing millions of traditional, religious, or conservative Israelis as primitive, dangerous, or morally inferior.

Settler violence could expose the government’s security failures, but Israel’s political landscape makes it a risky issue for opposition leaders to raise.