{"id":566695,"date":"2026-07-30T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/566695\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:36:10","slug":"is-someone-close-to-netanyahu-manipulating-polymarket-bets-on-his-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/566695\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Someone Close to Netanyahu Manipulating Polymarket Bets on His Election Victory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">This year, a new player has joined the ranks of election polls: Polymarket, a betting market where people can wager real money on future events, Israel&#8217;s election included. Many consider it more reliable than any poll, because it doesn&#8217;t reflect what people say they&#8217;ll do, but shows what they&#8217;re willing to risk their money on. Wisdom of the crowds meets the free market, where people put their money where their mouth is: As a result, shifts in the betting odds on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or on the leading candidate to replace him, Gadi Eisenkot, draw extensive attention and news coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year, a new player has joined the ranks of election polls: Polymarket, a betting market where people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,955,42,2649,954,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-566695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-headlines","tag-israeli-elections","tag-israeli-politics","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566695","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=566695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}