{"id":661115,"date":"2026-10-29T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661115\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:50:10","slug":"israel-deadlocked-trump-iran-and-the-midterms-sources-methods-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661115\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel deadlocked \/ Trump, Iran and the midterms : Sources & Methods : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n An aerial view shows a campaign billboard depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Trump in Tel Aviv on Monday.<\/p>\n

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A majority of Israeli voters went against sitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc, but he may not have to cede his office. It’s not clear the opposition will be able to form a governing coalition.<\/p>\n

Guest host Scott Detrow talks with NPR International Correspondent Daniel Estrin and NPR National Security Correspondent Greg Myre about how the election could affect Netanyahu’s calculus on the war in Iran. U.S. President Donald Trump said that he and Netanyahu “have to\u00a0finish the job that we started!” And Netanyahu campaigned on a renewed bombing campaign.<\/p>\n

Email the show at\u00a0sourcesandmethods@npr.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show\u2019s perks include archive access and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An aerial view shows a campaign billboard depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Trump in Tel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-661115","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\/661115","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=661115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}