Geopolitics · Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Israel votes on 27 October in election that could end Netanyahu's run
Israelis go to the polls on 27 October to choose a new Knesset, with 120 seats at stake and a 3.25% threshold to enter parliament. Polls show former army chief Gadi Eisenkot's new party running close to Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud, in a race shaped by the lack of a state inquiry into the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack, doubled defence spending and rows over ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions.