{"id":604728,"date":"2026-09-03T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604728\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:34:08","slug":"netanyahus-big-reelection-concern-isnt-his-political-rivals-its-some-of-his-biggest-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604728\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu&#8217;s big reelection concern isn&#8217;t his political rivals. It&#8217;s some of his biggest supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OWW43LEFWJHBPBCYU7TAO7CHPE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">JERUSALEM \u2014 As Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/benjamin-netanyahu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> seeks reelection, his main concern these days isn\u2019t his political rivals. It\u2019s some of his biggest supporters.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QFIQJZ32ZFF4NKMQ6TDPGTAPSU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A series of small, pro-Netanyahu parties are competing in the run-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-netanyahu-knesset-politics-elections-6f9aa6db190ea8bd167d723aa86d2659\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Oct. 27 vote<\/a> . But instead of strengthening the Israeli leader, these parties \u2014 including hard-line blocs led by polarizing Cabinet ministers <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bengvir-flotilla-gaza-087fa379fa08ae4ddc3a0262b381e3e5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Itamar Ben-Gvir<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-settlers-west-bank-ad62cc10b512a607aee77cc91873519f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bezalel Smotrich<\/a> \u2014 risk weakening his chances for reelection by splitting the vote among Netanyahu\u2019s base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JERUSALEM \u2014 As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks reelection, his main concern these days isn\u2019t his political&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[159991,157768,157769,157766,157767,4410,122,85,46,273281,43,238,126],"class_list":["post-604728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-2026-election-news","tag-election-latest-news","tag-election-news","tag-election-news-2026","tag-elections","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-ml-israel-politics","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604728","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=604728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}