{"id":652993,"date":"2026-10-21T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/652993\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:18:08","slug":"how-israel-opposition-infighting-is-boosting-netanyahu-days-before-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/652993\/","title":{"rendered":"How Israel opposition infighting is boosting Netanyahu days before election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">JERUSALEM \u2014 Opposition parties say they are united in their effort to topple Israel&#8217;s prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2026\/10\/how-netanyahu-capitalizing-mbz-meeting-flydubai-attack-gain-election-polls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, but they cannot agree on who should replace him or what a future coalition might look like.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That disarray is one of Netanyahu\u2019s greatest assets ahead of the Oct. 27 vote, as the country remains mired in the longest war in its history.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Although this is the first election since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack, the overriding question remains the same as it has been for more than a decade: Will Israelis reelect\u00a0Netanyahu, Israel&#8217;s longest-serving premier? Netanyahu remains a major political force despite presiding over the greatest catastrophe in Israel\u2019s history \u2014 a striking paradox that says much about the man, the country and the state of the opposition bloc vying to unseat him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Shift to the right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JERUSALEM \u2014 Opposition parties say they are united in their effort to topple Israel&#8217;s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-652993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652993","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=652993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}