Said Amori and Tarek Chouiref<\/p>\n
26 October 2026\u2022Update: 26 October 2026<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir clashed over a proposed military operation that could trigger fighting with Iran ahead of Israel\u2019s election, Channel 12 reported Sunday.<\/p>\n
Zamir requested a detailed discussion and signed legal authorization from political leaders before carrying out their instructions, the broadcaster said. It did not disclose the nature of the operation.<\/p>\n
The report cited military concerns that the political leadership could exploit tensions with Iran for electoral gain before the Oct. 27 parliamentary vote.<\/p>\n
A security official warned that the operation could rapidly escalate into a confrontation with Iran and lead to a miscalculation at a particularly sensitive time.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu denied any dispute with Zamir during an interview with Israel\u2019s Channel 14 later Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no confrontation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Political officials also rejected the claim that the Iranian issue was being used for electoral purposes, according to Channel 12.<\/p>\n
In the same interview, Netanyahu said he had instructed the Mossad intelligence agency and the military to work toward toppling Iran\u2019s government.<\/p>\n
Channel 12 did not establish whether the undisclosed operation was connected to those instructions.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu also claimed Iran had resumed its nuclear program and portrayed the election as a matter of Israel\u2019s survival.<\/p>\n
Earlier Sunday, he posted an AI-generated image of a nuclear explosion over Tel Aviv alongside a warning about Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. Opposition party leaders Gadi Eisenkot and Yair Golan accused him of spreading fear and panic before the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Said Amori and Tarek Chouiref 26 October 2026\u2022Update: 26 October 2026 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Army…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-657199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657199","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=657199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}