Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the UN General Assembly in New York City on September 22, 2026. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could still emerge on top after next week’s Israeli elections, writes Ilan Berman. (Shutterstock/Bindelglass Photos)

Will Benjamin Netanyahu Survive Israel’s Elections Next Week?

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Israel’s perennial prime minister will need more than President Donald Trump’s endorsement to get over the finish line.

Next week, Israelis will go to the polls in what will arguably be the most important election in the Jewish state’s 78-year history.

It is the first electoral contest since the horrific events of October 7, 2023, in which Palestinian terror group Hamas massacred more than 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians, and kidnapped 251 others. As such, the October 27 election will serve as a referendum on the political leadership that presided over that terrible day, and that has continued to steward the country since.

Naturally, a key issue on the ballot is accountability. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been a fixture of Israeli politics for well over a generation, and was in office on October 7. However, he has so far refused to allow the creation of a state commission of inquiry, instead seeking to stage-manage the process of........

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