Opinion | The main difference between Netanyahu and Eisenkot is character

Nadav Eyal is a senior research scholar at Columbia University and a columnist for Yediot Ahronot.

Last week, in Dimona, a longtime Likud stronghold in southern Israel, Gadi Eisenkot faced an angry voter. In a choppy video, the man appears to accuse the former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, now seen as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strongest challenger, of planning to govern with Hamas supporters or of being unwilling to destroy Hamas. It’s a core accusation of the Netanyahu campaign.