Gadi Eisenkot
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Gadi Eisenkot

B1IntermediateOctober 24, 202614 min
  • Politics

Israelis are about to vote in the country's first general election since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023. According to the polls, Israel's longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his Likud Party face their steepest competition yet from Gadi Eisenkot and his relatively new party, Yashar! Gadi Eisenkot was born in Tiberias to working-class parents from Morocco. If he wins, it would make him Israel's first Mizrahi prime minister, meaning that, like around half the country's population, he has Middle Eastern and North African Jewish heritage rather than a European, or Ashkenazi, background. Joining the Israel...

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Thank you for downloading Profile. This week's presenter is Mark Coles. I do think it could be one of the most consequential elections in Israel's history, spanning back to 1948 when the country was founded.

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Netanyahu has been prime minister for half of forever. And this is the best shot the opposition has had to put him out of office. In just a few days' time, Israel goes to the polls, the country at an historic crossroads. An election seen by many as a vote on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of

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the October 7 attacks and the three years of war that have followed. Israel divided at home and it seems increasingly condemned on the international stage. The person we're profiling this week, the man you've just heard, 66-year-old Gadi Isonkot, a former head of the Israeli military, a bereaved father whose son was killed at

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