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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) speaks at the start of a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, October 6, 2026. (GPO/Screenshot)
October 6, 2026, 5:23 pm
Netanyahu claims Hamas will try to attack Israel to influence upcoming election
Katz says Israel has intel indicating terror group plans to target IDF in Gaza on Wednesday’s 3-year anniversary of Oct. 7 attack, warns Hamas and Gaza civilians will pay price if troops harmed
By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Gadi Eisenkot, leader of Yashar party and a former IDF chief of staff, speaks during an election campaign rally in Nordiya, Israel, August 31, 2026. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
September 29, 2026, 11:32 pm
Shin Bet won’t provide Eisenkot with security detail, despite earlier report to contrary
Agency says it will offer intelligence support and allow armed private guards; Democrats party also presses for protection for Golan amid threats
By ToI Staff
This composite image shows Opposition Leader Yair Lapid (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in video statements they each released on September 29, 2026. (Screenshot via Yair Lapid's X account, Screenshot/Ma’ayan Toaf/GPO)
September 29, 2026, 8:43 pm
Netanyahu claims indications of attack plot by ‘enemies’ ahead of election; Lapid, briefed, derides him
Opposition leader says ‘no reason to put the public in a panic’ after receiving update from PM in wake of latter’s vague announcement, says Netanyahu should ‘draft the 15,000 Haredim the IDF needs’ if he’s so worried about security
By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Yair Golan, chairman of the Democrats party, attends an election campaign event in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, September 28, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)
September 29, 2026, 1:31 pm
Citing death threats, Democrats petition High Court for Shin Bet to guard Golan
Left-wing party claims the refusal so far to provide protection for party chair Yair Golan makes his campaigning opportunities unequal, and potentially deadly
By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
The change bloc leaders: Avigdor Liberman, Yair Golan, Gadi Eisenkot, Yair Lapid, Naftali Bennett (Official campaign photos, combo created by The Times of Israel)
September 28, 2026, 5:09 pm
By refusing to name a leader, the anti-Netanyahu ‘change bloc’ is making a fatal mistake
An intended reconciliation meeting exposed a critical flaw. In declining to rally behind Gadi Eisenkot, the opposition is inviting relentless, deeply damaging internal rivalry
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Yashar party chairman and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot meets with families of former hostages, hostages who were killed in captivity in the Gaza Strip, and victims of the October 7 attack at the Families’ Sukkah at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, September 27, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 28, 2026, 12:55 pm
Report: After earlier refusals, Shin Bet to provide security for Yashar’s Gadi Eisenkot
Security detail with state-funded bodyguards expected to be finalized in coming days, while agency has yet to decide on protection for Democrats chair Yair Golan
By ToI Staff
Democrats party chairman Yair Golan arrives for a meeting with opposition leaders in Tel Aviv, September 26, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 27, 2026, 8:51 pm
Day after meeting opposition chiefs, Golan says Arab parties could be in next government
Democrats party clarifies that his comments made during radio interview refer to party platform, not bloc consensus, says topic did not come up during meeting; Likud slams remarks
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Left to right: Yair Lapid, Gadi Eisenkot, Yair Golan, Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Liberman meet at Lapid's Tel Aviv home, September 26, 2026. (Lihi Lapid)
September 27, 2026, 12:03 am
‘It is our duty to work together’: Opposition chiefs meet, vow to do everything to form ‘a government of repair’
Declaration signed by Eisenkot, Bennett, Lapid, Liberman and Golan says parties are ‘united and determined’ to win ‘crucial elections’; they pledge not to attack each other
By ToI Staff
L to R: National Unity MK Gadi Eisenkot at the Knesset on March 24, 2025; Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman at the Knesset on May 19, 2025; former prime minister Naftali Bennett visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during Jerusalem day, May 26, 2025. (All photos Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 17, 2026, 2:35 pm
‘Old politics’: Eisenkot accuses Bennett, Liberman of damaging opposition’s chances
Yisrael Beytenu hits back after Yashar chief scolds leaders for refusing to say they’ll support head of largest party for PM; Golan to allies: ‘We’ll all support same candidate’
By Ariela Karmel
Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a press conference in the Knesset, May 10, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 16, 2026, 10:54 pm
Levin allows Shin Bet final say on providing security to political party chiefs
Justice minister makes decision unilaterally after no other ministers show up to committee hearing; parties of Eisenkot, Golan have demanded protection, citing threats
By ToI Staff
An AI-generated video posted September 15, 2026 by Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich depicts (left to right) Supreme Court President Isaac Amit, fellow justice Daphne Barak-Erez, and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara being forcibly removed at a protest. (Bezalel Smotrich via X)
September 15, 2026, 10:50 pm
Smotrich assailed for AI video of High Court chief, AG being dragged at protest
Video posted as part of Religious Zionism party’s election campaign, advocating judicial overhaul more radical than outgoing government’s; Herzog denounces ‘offensive AI videos’
By Jeremy Sharon
Left: Sara Netanyahu in a Channel 14 interview broadcast on August 31, 2026. Right: Yair Golan, October 14, 2023. (Screenshot/Channel 14; Kan TV screenshot)
September 10, 2026, 4:10 pm
Yair Golan files $843,000 suit against Sara Netanyahu over Oct. 7 conspiracy theory
Democrats party chair says lawsuit isn’t just about his reputation, but about ‘a government that has lost all restraint’ after PM’s wife insinuated he knew of Hamas attack in advance
By Ariela Karmel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents the new members joining the Likud party’s candidate list ahead of the upcoming general elections, in Jerusalem, September 8, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 9, 2026, 5:22 pm
Netanyahu says he’ll sue Haaretz over report UAE leader warned him days before Oct. 7
PM again denies he had call with Emirati president, demands criminal probe of the journalists who wrote the story; separate report says Egypt shared intel with Netanyahu that said Hamas wanted to ‘make the ground in Gaza tremble’
By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman
Yair Golan, leader of The Democrats party and a former IDF deputy chief of staff, speaks during an election campaign rally in Netanya, Israel, August 27, 2026. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
September 7, 2026, 2:16 pm
Golan: If Israel maintains liberal values, ‘woke’ critics will have less ‘ammunition’
Ben Gvir takes down video of himself taunting Palestinian prisoners after complaint to election panel; Shas reportedly considering including IDF officer on electoral slate
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his wife Sara at a state ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
September 3, 2026, 4:51 pm
The horrific October 7 ‘betrayal’ libel is now central to Likud’s official election campaign
Instead of taking responsibility for the country’s greatest failure, Netanyahu and his colleagues are peddling a false and despicable conspiracy theory against the defense establishment
By Shalom Yerushalmi
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