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Eisenkot casts vote in Tel Aviv

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Portrait of Yashar party head Gadi Eisenkot, Aug. 12, 2026. Photo by Yossi Aloni/FLASH90
Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, Aug. 12, 2026. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.
(Oct. 27, 2026 / JNS)

Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot voted in the 26th Knesset election at a polling station in Tel Aviv on Tuesday afternoon.

Eisenkot, the main challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was accompanied by his wife, Hannah.

“We are setting Israel on a new path. We will be worthy,” Eisenkot posted in Hebrew on X.

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