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Netanyahu urges military overthrow Iran before Oct. 27 election

By Drooid · Oct 23, 2026, 2:13 PM UTC · How we work

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Netanyahu Urges Overthrow

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged military to overthrow Iran’s regime before the Oct. 27 election.
Netanyahu’s Likud party faces a vote on Oct. 27, first since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack.
Israeli general Gadi Eisenkot leads a bloc that poses Netanyahu’s strongest parliamentary challenge.
Iranian council secretary Mohsen Rezaei warned new attacks would target oil, cable and AI facilities across seven Gulf states.

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Abbas Picks Candidate

Mansour Abbas appointed former police chief Yoav Segalovitz as Ra’am’s second candidate.
Likud and Religious Zionism placed nearly 2,000 activists at Arab polling stations without official roles.
Joint List head Yousef Jabareen condemned the activists as intimidation targeting Arab voters.
Stat-Net Research Institute projected Arab turnout at 63%, up from 56% in 2022.
Eisenkot’s campaign installed Moroccan-Arabic billboards in peripheral towns promoting a ‘prime minister of our own.’

History

Historical Context

In 1977, Menachem Begin’s Likud—created in 1973—won 43 Knesset seats, ending three decades of Labor dominance and forming a narrow 61-seat coalition with the National Religious Party and Agudat Yisrael. The victory, driven by Mizrahi support, introduced a right-wing governing tradition that today frames Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, now facing internal dissent and external pressure.

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Netanyahu Urges Overthrow

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged military to overthrow Iran’s regime before the Oct. 27 election.
Netanyahu’s Likud party faces a vote on Oct. 27, first since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack.
Israeli general Gadi Eisenkot leads a bloc that poses Netanyahu’s strongest parliamentary challenge.
Iranian council secretary Mohsen Rezaei warned new attacks would target oil, cable and AI facilities across seven Gulf states.

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