Eisenkot offers hawkish alternative to Netanyahu for Israeli PM
The anti-Netanyahu bloc leads by as many as six seats, but the polls still leave both sides short of the 61 needed to govern.
- Final polls suggest Israel’s election may end in a stalemate, with neither Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc nor Gadi Eisenkot’s opposing bloc projected to win the 61 seats needed for a Knesset majority.
- Polling averages give Netanyahu’s bloc 54 seats and Eisenkot’s bloc or the opposition 50, while recent polls narrowly favor Eisenkot’s bloc.
- The three main surveys project between 52 and 56 seats for Eisenkot’s bloc and about 50 for Netanyahu’s bloc, leaving smaller parties potentially important in coalition talks.
- Failure to form a coalition could lead to another election.
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Arab voters denounce racist attacks and their freedom of expression by the ultra-rightist government. Ending this fear motivates them to vote
One of Gadi Eisenkot’s greatest electoral assets is a simple and undeniable fact: it is not Benjamin Netanyahu. And for many voters, in one of the most critical elections in Israel’s history, that might well suffice.
Ahead of the Israeli election on Tuesday, opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot is leading the way. The election is seen by many as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu.
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