Israel election 2026: Netanyahu may be weak but the right wing remains as strong as ever

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Likud is set to haemorrhage seats but the election is too close to call and voters appear not to have lost any of their right-wing fervour As so often in recent years, Israel’s latest election has centred on the personality of Benjamin Netanyahu. You might think, exactly three years after the 7 October 2023, that the Hamas-led attack and Israel’s genocide in Gaza would be the formative issue for these polls. And in a sense they are, but only in so much as how they relate to Netanyahu, his conduc