{"id":538529,"date":"2026-07-13T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538529\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:00:08","slug":"the-main-candidates-facing-netanyahu-in-israels-elections-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538529\/","title":{"rendered":"The main candidates facing Netanyahu in Israel\u2019s elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem \u2013 Israel will hold a general election on Oct. 27, parliament announced on Sunday, with veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeking to stay in power.<\/p>\n<p>Here are his main rivals:<\/p>\n<p>The son of Moroccan immigrants, Gadi Eisenkot, 66, holds a great deal of public sympathy, particularly following the death in combat of his son Gal and two of his nephews during the Gaza war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jerusalem \u2013 Israel will hold a general election on Oct. 27, parliament announced on Sunday, with veteran Prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,85,46,47,43],"class_list":["post-538529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}