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Polymarket Blocks Suspicious Accounts Amid Israel PM Betting
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- Polymarket traders gave Israel’s Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot a 49% chance to become prime minister.
- Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu received a 31% chance and former premier Naftali Bennett a 16% chance.
- The Israel election market generated roughly $46 million in trading volume.
- Analysts flagged $284 million of paired-account trades on Ethiopian contracts as likely manipulation.
- Polymarket’s head of global intelligence Shana Bautista said the firm blocked those accounts after investigation.