With elections looming in 2026, Israel’s Left trots out fading stars
the morning of October 8, 2023, almost no one in Israel imagined that the next election campaign would focus on anything other than the most horrific massacre in the nation’s history since the Holocaust.
Except, perhaps, for one person: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
More than two years later, it is clear that while the coming elections will indeed unfold in the shadow of the massacre seared into the consciousness of every Israeli, they will not revolve around it alone. Over the course of two years, Israelis have returned to their familiar disputes and entrenched political battles — for better, and mostly for worse.
The new secular year, which begins this week, will be an election year in Israel, and given the alternatives already on the table, it is possible to say in advance: These will be bad elections.
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