KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel \u2014 Kiryat Shmona has long been a bastion of support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party. But that loyalty is no longer ironclad.<\/p>\n
Once a bustling commercial center, Israel\u2019s northernmost city was temporarily evacuated three years ago after being battered by rockets from nearby Lebanon<\/a> , and it still feels half-empty even though the attacks have mostly subsided. Although the town remains staunchly conservative, there are rumblings of displeasure with Netanyahu\u2019s handling of the latest war against the militant group Hezbollah, and that could bode poorly for him in Israel’s election<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel \u2014 Kiryat Shmona has long been a bastion of support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[159991,157768,14142,157769,157766,157767,4410,122,85,119,46,3896,294509,43,238,38366,121,126],"class_list":["post-654755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-2026-election-news","tag-conservatism","tag-election-latest-news","tag-election-news","tag-election-news-2026","tag-elections","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-international-agreements","tag-israel","tag-military-and-defense","tag-ml-israel-elections-netanyahu-stronghold","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-voting","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654755","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=654755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}