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Netanyahu’s political survival on the line as Israel votes

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) •
October 27, 2026 • 05:00 AM
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Opinion polls show a close race between Israel’s longest-serving leader and his right-wing allies and a rival alliance led by a former military chief of staff.

Netanyahu’s political survival on the line as Israel votes

Jerusalem | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a fight for political survival in Israel’s election on Tuesday, with voters weighing his leadership after the 2023 Hamas-led attacks, wars in Gaza and with Iran, and Israel’s deepening international isolation.

Yet, Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving leader with 19 years in office across three separate periods, remains a formidable survivor, with nationalist politics increasingly entrenched and Israel’s fragmented system potentially leaving him best placed to form a government.

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