{"id":662559,"date":"2026-10-31T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662559\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:24:10","slug":"could-israels-election-deadlock-threaten-its-resilient-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662559\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Israel\u2019s election deadlock threaten its resilient economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s economy has won praise for its resilience through years of conflict, even as wartime growth has masked deeper fragilities. Now, it must withstand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2026\/10\/how-netanyahu-trying-discredit-arab-parties-bid-block-eisenkot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">political uncertainty<\/a> following an inconclusive election.<\/p>\n<p>Economic concerns took a back seat to security in Oct. 27\u2019s high-stakes vote, which left neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s bloc nor main challenger Gadi Eisenkot with a governing majority. The long-time Israeli leader is positioned to remain caretaker prime minister during potentially protracted coalition negotiations, with another election possible.<\/p>\n<p>The stalemate is unlikely to derail the economy in the near term and the International Monetary Fund has forecast Israel\u2019s GDP will expand 4.5% in 2026. But it leaves unresolved who will address the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2026\/10\/what-netanyahu-win-or-loss-could-mean-israels-economy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">problems beneath<\/a> the robust headline growth figures, including fiscal pressures, high living costs, structural weaknesses and growing international isolation that economists warn could erode future prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question now is, of course, whether the new government, which will be formed somehow, will carry out growth-enhancing policies. This remains to be seen,\u201d Benjamin Bental, an economist with the Jerusalem-based Taub Center for Social Policy Studies, told Al-Monitor. \u201cBut the immediate future seems to be very much dependent on the continuation of the trends we have seen over the last two years, despite the war, of a strengthening high-tech sector.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s economy has won praise for its resilience through years of conflict, even as wartime growth has masked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-662559","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\/662559","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=662559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}