A Maariv poll found that Likud rose to 22 seats, while Benny Gantz, Ayelet Shaked, Yuli Edelstein, and Dedi Simchi could win four seats with a new party.

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM, July 29 (Reuters) - Israelis are due to hold a national election on October 27. It will be the first since the deadly October 7, 2023 Hamas attack that shook the country and plunged the Middle East into turmoil as Israel went to war in Gaza,

The Israeli prime minister's latest campaign video casts New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a perpetrator of anti-Israel ideology in his bid to rally Israeli voters

According to the poll, if elections were held today, Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot would each lead with 23 seats, an increase of two seats for each compared with the previous poll.

Benjamin Netanyahu is not cryptocurrency punters’ favorite to come back to power in Israel, while his main challenger, Gadi Eizenkot, is seen as the frontrunner. A Change Brewing In Israel? Polygon (CRYPTO: POL)-based Polymarket priced in a 37% chance of Netanyahu becoming Prime Minister once again after the October elections,

By Benjamin Raab TEL AVIV, July 29 (Reuters) - A new Jewish-Arab political party is courting young voters ahead of Israel's October election. But critics say it risks weakening the bid by the already underrepresented Arab minority to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightist government.

Gadi Eisenkot, a former head of Israel’s armed forces, has emerged as the main challenger to Benjamin Netanyahu in upcoming elections that could end the premiership of the country’s longest-serving leader.

Israel’s Knesset dissolves after a week in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kept his allies onside with the help of a blitz of controversial legislation.

The Israeli PM’s visit to the US comes amid raids in the occupied West Bank, before the October 27 elections.