{"id":663265,"date":"2026-11-01T03:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663265\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T03:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T03:24:10","slug":"thousands-rally-in-israel-urging-jewish-arab-coalition-to-oust-netanyahu-benjamin-netanyahu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663265\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands rally in Israel urging \u2018Jewish-Arab\u2019 coalition to oust Netanyahu | Benjamin Netanyahu News"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a counterprotest, Netanyahu supporters demand that Israel should not have a government with \u2018terrorists\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Thousands of people have rallied in Tel Aviv to urge the Israeli opposition to make a deal with Arab parties to remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

Protesters at Saturday\u2019s rally told the AFP news agency this may be the \u201clast chance for real change\u201d and that Netanyahu, Israel\u2019s longest-serving prime minister, is a \u201cgreat manipulator\u201d.<\/p>\n

Main opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot has previously ruled out forming a coalition with Israel\u2019s Arab parties, but a deadlock in Tuesday\u2019s elections means siding with the parties could help him form a government.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople really want this vote for change to work out, and they believe that\u2026 Gadi Eisenkot and other leaders of the Jewish-Israeli parties need to listen to their voice,\u201d Al Jazeera correspondent Nour Odeh said from Ramallah on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Counter-protesters also showed up to Saturday\u2019s demonstrations, with Netanyahu supporters seen shouting their own demands that \u201cIsrael should not have a government with so-called terrorists\u201d, Odeh said.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s bloc won 53 seats in Tuesday\u2019s elections, while Eisenkot\u2019s won 48, meaning neither side can form a government in Israel\u2019s 120-seat parliament alone.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s three Arab-led parties won 19 seats, having made significant gains in Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

Nearly 840,000 people voted for Ra\u2019am and the Joint List, a coalition of three Arab-led parties, a 64 percent increase from the last elections in 2022, according to the Central Election Committee.<\/p>\n

The Arab electoral success means a coalition with Eisenkot would provide a comfortable majority of 67. However, for many in Israel, the idea of siding with Arabs is politically unpalatable.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu has accused Palestinian-Israeli parties of \u201cstealing\u201d the polls and accepting funding from Qatar to do it. Qatar has rejected the allegations<\/a>, calling it a disinformation campaign.<\/p>\n

Odeh said that Israeli right-wing circles have described \u201cthe historic turnout of Palestinian Israelis as electoral terrorism, equating it to the October 7th attack\u201d, when Hamas-led fighters stormed southern Israel, killing more than 1,200 people and taking hundreds captive.<\/p>\n

\u201cPalestinian-Israeli votes and voices\u201d are under attack because they have a \u201cprominent position\u201d in deciding whether Eisenkot can form a government, she added.<\/p>\n

\"AA protester dressed as US President Donald Trump and holding a puppet depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes part in a demonstration in Tel Aviv on October 31, 2026, calling for the formation of a Jewish-Arab coalition government following Israel\u2019s general elections [AFP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a counterprotest, Netanyahu supporters demand that Israel should not have a government with \u2018terrorists\u2019. Published On 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,85,46,44,47,43],"class_list":["post-663265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663265","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=663265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}