{"id":83634,"date":"2025-10-18T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/83634\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:33:10","slug":"netanyahu-says-to-run-for-pm-again-in-israels-2026-elections-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/83634\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu says to run for PM again in Israel&#8217;s 2026 elections-Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" controls=\"controls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251019558912babcda4bb8bbc5300ed454466f_CcrbeeE000008_20251019_CBMFN0A001.JPG\"\/>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the General Debate of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN headquarters in New York, Sept. 26, 2025. (Xinhua\/Wu Xiaoling)<\/p>\n<p>JERUSALEM, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) &#8212; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Saturday that he will run for office again in the 2026 parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>He made the announcement during an interview with Israel&#8217;s Channel 14, where he was asked if he intends to seek another term. &#8220;Yes,&#8221; he replied.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether he expects to win, Netanyahu said, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the last Israeli elections in 2022, Netanyahu&#8217;s right-wing Likud party won 32 seats and he was recommended by 64 members of the 120-seat Israeli parliament, or Knesset, to be qualified to form a government. Netanyahu was sworn in as the country&#8217;s prime minister in December of that year, and has been leading an extreme-right coalition ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu will turn 76 next week. He served as Israel&#8217;s prime minister from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021, before being ousted in June 2021 by a centrist coalition formed by Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett.\u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the General Debate of the 80th session of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4410,85,46,43,49482,2519],"class_list":["post-83634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-elections","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-pm","tag-wn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83634","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=83634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}