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Former Israeli army chief Gadi Eisenkot emerges as Netanyahu’s leading election challenger
Sunday, October 25, 2026
Gadi Eisenkot, who served as Israeli military chief of staff from 2014 to 2019 and later as a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet, is running as an election challenger. Eisenkot's son was killed in the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. Eisenkot has also served as a member of the Knesset since 2021.
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