Israel Election Tests Netanyahu's Hold on Power

Bloomberg Markets Tuesday 27 October 2026, 19:42 UTC 1 min read

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Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, compared Donald Trump's endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel's election to his grandmother's chicken soup: 'it sometimes didn't help, but it couldn't hurt.' Miller said that Netanyahu and his opposition challenger Gadi Eisenkot hold differing views on the war with Iran and settler violence, but are close together on issues of national security.

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