# Israeli election, final week

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Israel voted on October 27, 2026, after polls showed a deadlocked race. All main exit polls had Eisenkot's center-right bloc slightly ahead, but with all Tuesday ballots counted Netanyahu's coalition holds about 53 seats and the Jewish Opposition Alliance about 48, with Arab parties possibly 19, both short of the 61 needed. Absentee ballots, including many soldiers' votes, and about 10 percent cast at temporary polling places will not be counted until Thursday. Netanyahu says Likud remains the largest party, calls governing with anti-Zionist Arab parties forbidden, and accuses them of stealing seats, with Likud sending hundreds of testimonies to police, Shin Bet and the elections committee. Balad's Maha Saba says Arab parties would negotiate only with Eisenkot's bloc.

Page: https://boilpoints.com/point/israeli_election_final_week_2525721421

## Segments

- [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-21, 18:40 to 26:24: **Interviews Tarnopolsky on the Israeli race**. Brings on Noga Tarnopolsky from Jerusalem for a state-of-the-race interview a week out: the bloc system, the Arab-majority parties as kingmakers, and the paradox of Eisenkot and Bennett leading Netanyahu on preferred prime minister while party polls show an impasse. New angle: Polls show Eisenkot beating Netanyahu by 12 points as preferred prime minister, with 8 to 10 percent undecided.
- [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-21, 26:18 to 30:03: **Profiles Eisenkot's platform and personal toll**. Profiles Eisenkot's platform a week out: canceling Netanyahu's judicial legislation, an independent October 7 commission, and the cost of living and security as the election's real issues. Adds the personal toll - a son and two nephews lost in the war - and Netanyahu's mocking videos and proxy's 'monkey' slur. New angle: Eisenkot lost a son and two nephews in one year; Netanyahu posted videos mocking his son Gal's death.
- [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-21, 30:01 to 32:16: **Walks through the dueling final-week ads**. Tarnopolsky walks through the dueling campaign ads in the final week: Likud's 'Hayyamin of Palestine' slogan, which she calls a racist slur against Arabs and Eisenkot, and Eisenkot's mock ad showing Netanyahu's past handshakes with Arafat. New angle: Likud's campaign slogan is 'Hayyamin of Palestine,' a slur Tarnopolsky says targets Arabs and Eisenkot.
- [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-21, 34:10 to 38:21: **Profiles Eisenkot's military record**. Tarnopolsky walks through Eisenkot's military record: the Dahiya Doctrine, the Elor Azaria court-martial, and his exit from Netanyahu's war government over a policy of eternal war. Background on the candidate, not a new development in the race.
- [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-21, 41:26 to 45:51: **Reports Barak's warning on Netanyahu's moves**. Tarnopolsky's final-week segment turns from polling to what Netanyahu might do: Ehud Barak and other senior officials say on the record he could do anything, Likud is trying to plant observers to intimidate voters, and there are fears of armed Ben-Gvir-linked gangs if he loses. First exit polls at 10 p.m. Israel time Tuesday. New angle: Ehud Barak and other senior officials say publicly Netanyahu could do anything before or after the vote.
- [The Daily](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedaily), 2026-10-22, 1:20 to 7:17: **Frames the race as existential**. Opens the episode with the bureau chief framing the race as existential: two blocs at roughly half the country each, democracy and the Jewish state's character on the ballot, Palestinian statehood off it. Background and setup, not a new development.
- [The Daily](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedaily), 2026-10-22, 7:01 to 10:05: **Walks through the security closing pitch**. Halbfinger walks through Netanyahu's closing pitch: security as the top issue, the seven-front war, the killed Hezbollah and Hamas leaders, the pager attack and US help against Iran, set against October 7 and his refusal of an inquiry commission. Campaign-color retelling, no new development.
- [The Daily](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedaily), 2026-10-22, 10:05 to 13:11: **Runs through the inquiry refusal and draft**. Runs through Netanyahu's refusal to seat a national commission of inquiry and the opposition's pledge to make one its first priority, then widens to the reservist burden and the ultra-Orthodox draft exemption. The inquiry ground is already on the record; the draft material is background to the same election story.
- [The Daily](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedaily), 2026-10-22, 13:42 to 16:26: **Walks through Netanyahu's closing argument**. Halbfinger walks through Netanyahu's closing argument: isolation blamed on anti-Semitism and Qatari money, Israel cast as a Sparta arming itself, and total reliance on the Trump administration. It stays inside the final-week framing, with the polls described only as neck and neck.
- [The Daily](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedaily), 2026-10-22, 17:35 to 23:07: **Profiles Eisenkot's rise to the race**. Profiles Eisenkot's rise: Tiberias-born, Mizrahi, Golani grunt, chief of staff in 2015 after turning the job down in 2011, into Netanyahu's government after October 7, out by June 2024. The bereavement and the split are retold, not advanced.
- [Global News Podcast](https://boilpoints.com/u/globalnewspodcast), 2026-10-22, 16:19 to 20:21: **Reports from Nazareth and Jaffa on the Arab vote**. Field report from Nazareth and Jaffa on the Arab-Israeli vote: the deadlocked blocs, Mansour Abbas's United Arab List as potential kingmaker, record murders in Arab communities and the Supreme Court's refusal to disqualify Arab parties. Retells the deadlock and the kingmaker math already on the record, adding voices rather than new facts.
- [Big Take](https://boilpoints.com/u/bigtake), 2026-10-23, 0:29 to 2:27: **Frames the vote as a verdict on October 7**. Dan Williams frames the vote as the first chance for Israelis to judge Netanyahu's handling of October 7 and the war, and notes the neck-and-neck polling with Eisenkot, the coalition math and signs of unusually high turnout. New angle: Polls show Netanyahu and Eisenkot running fairly neck and neck, with indications of unusually high turnout.
- [Big Take](https://boilpoints.com/u/bigtake), 2026-10-23, 2:36 to 4:16: **Draws out Eisenkot's policy positions**. Draws out Eisenkot's policy positions on the campaign trail - reining in hilltop youth, destroying or dismantling Hamas within 18 months of taking office - and argues the policy gap with Netanyahu is thin, making the vote a referendum on Netanyahu himself. New angle: Eisenkot says Hamas will be destroyed or dismantled within 18 months of him becoming prime minister.
- [Big Take](https://boilpoints.com/u/bigtake), 2026-10-23, 4:13 to 5:18: **Profiles Eisenkot's personal losses in Gaza**. Profiles Eisenkot's personal stake in the war: his son and two nephews killed in Gaza, his son's funeral attended by Netanyahu, and his accusation that Netanyahu prolonged the war for political reasons. Adds biography and a campaign argument the earlier coverage did not carry. New angle: Eisenkot lost a son and two nephews in Gaza and accuses Netanyahu of prolonging the war for political gain.
- [Big Take](https://boilpoints.com/u/bigtake), 2026-10-23, 5:35 to 7:09: **Frames the campaign around the Haredi draft waiver**. Williams frames the whole campaign as flowing from October 7 and puts the ultra-Orthodox conscription waiver at the center of it, with a figure the coverage had not carried: the community is now 15 to 18 percent of the population, and reservists who served hundreds of days call the exemption unforgivable. New angle: Ultra-Orthodox Jews now make up between 15 and 18 percent of Israel's population.
- [Big Take](https://boilpoints.com/u/bigtake), 2026-10-23, 7:27 to 9:00: **Speculates on what a Netanyahu loss means for him**. Speculates on what a Netanyahu loss would mean for him personally: Likud in opposition, knives out inside the party, and his legal exposure. Background on his age, corruption trial and ICC warrants, not a new development.
- [Global News Podcast](https://boilpoints.com/u/globalnewspodcast), 2026-10-26, 6:27 to 10:53: **Retells the deadlocked race through voters**. Voter-color piece from across Israel two days before the vote: a rally in Jerusalem, Netanyahu's late-night bar stop, a Sderot security chief who backed Likud his whole life and is now voting far right, and a 26-year-old near Oz weighing Eisenkot against the Democrats. Retells the deadlocked race without adding to the record.
- [The Fox News Rundown](https://boilpoints.com/u/thefoxnewsrundown), 2026-10-27, 19:43 to 21:48: **Recaps the final week and the split over October 7**. Yingst walks through the final week: neither candidate reaches a majority, the country is split over October 7 accountability, and both contenders are hawks on Iran. On Gaza, he contrasts Eisenkot's 18-month plan with Netanyahu's backing of Trump's Board of Peace plan. A recap that stays inside the existing file.
- [The Fox News Rundown](https://boilpoints.com/u/thefoxnewsrundown), 2026-10-27, 21:48 to 23:25: **Cross-checks the Gaza plans against the ground**. Yingst compares the two candidates' Gaza plans and then reports the ground reality: U.S. officials told Fox News Hamas would already be disarming, and it has not. He puts Israeli control at just over half of Gaza, short of the two-thirds figure in circulation. New angle: U.S. officials told Fox News Hamas would already be laying down arms; it has not, and Israel controls just over half of Gaza.
- [Start Here](https://boilpoints.com/u/starthere), 2026-10-27, 2:21 to 7:19: **Profiles Eisenkot in the final week**. Correspondent dispatch from Jerusalem framing the vote as a referendum on Netanyahu, with security as the top issue. Profiles Eisenkot as center-right and hawkish: backs the Iran war, keeps the army in Gaza, rules out a two-state solution, would likely rein in settler violence. A retelling that stays inside the established picture.
- [The Headlines](https://boilpoints.com/u/theheadlines), 2026-10-27, 0:38 to 3:54: **Reports the mood and the pre-vote Iran strike push**. Election-day segment from Jerusalem: the grim mood, fears of emigration, and the Times' own reporting that Netanyahu tried to push through an Iran strike in the weeks before the vote and was resisted by the military chief of staff. Adds the Times' sourcing and Netanyahu's mushroom-cloud post. New angle: The Times reports Netanyahu pushed for an Iran strike before the vote and the military chief of staff resisted; his spokesman did not respond.
- [Up First](https://boilpoints.com/u/upfirst), 2026-10-27, 9:37 to 13:40: **Reports turnout and the split from a polling station**. Reports from a polling station near Tel Aviv on election day: turnout expected well over 70 percent, voters split on security and cost of living, and Netanyahu's weekend AI image of a nuclear blast over Tel Aviv drawing anger. Adds the turnout figure and the Netanyahu post to the record. New angle: Turnout is expected well over 70 percent, and Netanyahu posted an AI image of an atomic bomb over Tel Aviv at the weekend.
- [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-27, 15:09 to 20:58: **Walks through the coalition math after the vote**. Parsi walks through coalition math after the vote: formation can take weeks or months, Netanyahu stays prime minister meanwhile and may push an attack in that window, and Eisenkot has ruled out a unity government with him. Analysis and prediction, no new reporting.
- [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-27, 20:58 to 26:25: **Reads Eisenkot calling Netanyahu delusional**. Reads Eisenkot's Israeli TV interview calling Netanyahu delusional over the claim Iran is days from a bomb. Parsi frames it as the first crack in a decades-old Israeli consensus on Iran, and warns that if Netanyahu falls, liberal Zionists will pin everything on him. New angle: Eisenkot called Netanyahu a delusional person in an Israeli TV interview, disputing his Iran nuclear claim.
- [Global News Podcast](https://boilpoints.com/u/globalnewspodcast), 2026-10-27, 1:27 to 5:12: **Reports turnout from a Jerusalem polling station**. Reports from a Jerusalem polling station on election day: turnout at 44.9% before polls close, voters flown in from Los Angeles, and the stakes framed as a referendum on Netanyahu. Adds the first hard turnout figure of the day. New angle: Turnout reached 44.9% before polls closed, with voting still underway until 10 p.m. local time.
- [Consider This from NPR](https://boilpoints.com/u/considerthisfromnpr), 2026-10-27, 3:47 to 8:41: **Reports exit polls putting Eisenkot slightly ahead**. Election-night reporting from both campaign headquarters: the first exit polls put Eisenkot's center-right bloc slightly ahead of Netanyahu's far-right and ultra-religious bloc, with soldiers' votes and two small right-wing parties still able to shift the map. Eisenkot's statement and the Arab-led parties' strong finish are on the record. New angle: All main exit polls show Eisenkot's center-right bloc as the largest, slightly ahead of Netanyahu's bloc.
- [Consider This from NPR](https://boilpoints.com/u/considerthisfromnpr), 2026-10-27, 8:39 to 10:01: **Lays out the regional stakes on election night**. Lays out the regional stakes on election night: Netanyahu's pledge to finish the job in Iran, no leading party backing a two-state solution, and Eisenkot promising a settler-violence clampdown while keeping troops in Gaza and Lebanon. Framing and recap, no new development.
- [Global News Podcast](https://boilpoints.com/u/globalnewspodcast), 2026-10-28, 2:42 to 6:35: **Adds the leaders' victory-night claims**. Reports from Jerusalem as counting begins, with under half the ballots in. Adds the two leaders' victory-night claims: Netanyahu says Likud is still the biggest party and rules out relying on anti-Zionist Arab parties; Eisenkot says the public chose change. New angle: Netanyahu says Likud remains the largest party and calls governing with anti-Zionist Arab parties forbidden.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-10-28, 11:37 to 14:52: **Reads out Channel 12's seat projections**. Reads out the Channel 12 seat projections the morning after the vote: Likud at 24, Yashar at 22, and Arab parties at a record 18 seats, with turnout the highest since 1999. Adds the first hard seat numbers to a file that until now held only bloc-level exit polls. New angle: Channel 12 projects Likud at 24 seats, Yashar at 22, and Arab parties at a record 18.
- [Up First](https://boilpoints.com/u/upfirst), 2026-10-28, 5:37 to 9:27: **Reports from Tel Aviv on the deadlock**. Reports from Tel Aviv on the count: the race is deadlocked, Arab-led parties want Eisenkot as prime minister, and most of his camp resists a coalition with them. Adds the count timeline and the six-week mandate, plus Eisenkot's warning to Netanyahu not to strike Iran during the transition. New angle: Eisenkot warned Netanyahu not to strike Iran during the transition; vote counting is expected to finish the next afternoon.
- [The Intelligence from The Economist](https://boilpoints.com/u/theintelligencefromtheeconomist), 2026-10-28, 1:49 to 8:23: **Cross-checks exit polls against the partial count**. Eleven hours after polls closed, with about half the votes counted, walks through the count: exit polls had the opposition at 70 seats and Netanyahu's coalition at 50, but actual votes put his coalition around 55 and Likud the largest party. Lays out the deadlock and the path to a possible early 2027 election. New angle: With about half the votes counted, Netanyahu's coalition sits around 55 seats, up from 50 in the exit polls.
- [The Headlines](https://boilpoints.com/u/theheadlines), 2026-10-28, 0:38 to 2:17: **Recaps record turnout and Arab party gains**. Morning-after roundup of the Israeli vote: record turnout, no clear winner, both Netanyahu and Eisenkot claiming victory, and exit polls projecting two Arab parties at their strongest showing ever, which could give them a role in forming the next government. New angle: Exit polls project two Arab parties at their strongest showing ever, with Arab voters turning out in record numbers.
- [WSJ What's News](https://boilpoints.com/u/wsjwhatsnews), 2026-10-28, 1:16 to 5:42: **Reports election night from Netanyahu's headquarters**. Reports from Netanyahu's headquarters in Jerusalem on election night: the mood shifted from muted to celebration as votes came in, with Netanyahu speaking around 3 a.m. and vowing to work with Trump on the Iran threat. Lays out the preliminary seat counts, record turnout and the fragmented opposition. New angle: With over half counted, Netanyahu's bloc sits in the mid-50s and Eisenkot's around 49, short of the 61 needed.
- [Global News Podcast](https://boilpoints.com/u/globalnewspodcast), 2026-10-28, 5:10 to 9:04: **Reports from the market with a count update**. Reports from Mahane Yehuda market on the morning after the vote, with voters split and Arab parties credited with a big gain. Adds a count update: roughly 85 percent of the regular vote is in, with the rest not due until the next day. New angle: About 85 percent of the regular vote has been counted, with the remainder not due until the next day.
- [Global News Podcast](https://boilpoints.com/u/globalnewspodcast), 2026-10-28, 9:04 to 12:33: **Breaks down the seat count and deadlock**. Knell's count update puts hard numbers on the deadlock: Likud-led bloc at 54, Eisenkot's change bloc at 49, Arab-led parties at an unprecedented 17 seats holding the balance of power. Adds the absentee-ballot timing and the comparison to Netanyahu's 68-seat majority last time. New angle: Absentee ballots, including many soldiers' votes, will not be counted until Thursday.
- [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-28, 3:18 to 25:19: **Breaks down the count with ballots outstanding**. Tarnopolsky walks through the count at 77 percent: Likud at 27 seats, Netanyahu's bloc down to a hard 54 from a 64-to-68 coalition, neither side at 61. Adds the racist posts, the AI fake image Likud kept pushing after it was debunked, and the roughly 10 percent of ballots cast at temporary polling places still to come. New angle: About 10 percent of ballots were cast at temporary polling places and will be counted later.
- [Squawk Pod](https://boilpoints.com/u/squawkpod), 2026-10-28, 6:43 to 8:52: **Reports the partial Knesset seat count**. Reports the partial count: Netanyahu's bloc at 55 seats, Eisenkot's at 50, neither near the 120-seat majority, with exit polls wrong and final results at least a day out. Notes the coalition math and the possibility of another vote. New angle: With about half the ballots counted, Netanyahu's bloc is projected at 55 Knesset seats and Eisenkot's at 50.
- [Squawk Pod](https://boilpoints.com/u/squawkpod), 2026-10-28, 35:01 to 36:52: **Details Netanyahu's blocked Iran strike plan**. Volker walks through the post-election path: Netanyahu likely gets the first nod to form a government, coalition talks could run months, and he says Netanyahu wanted a new Iran strike before the vote but was blocked inside Israel, with the court saying no. He expects Trump to set the agenda after the U.S. midterms. New angle: Volker says Netanyahu wanted a new Iran attack before the Israeli election and the court blocked it.
- [The Bulwark Daily](https://boilpoints.com/u/thebulwarkdaily), 2026-10-28, 26:02 to 27:30: **Floats coalition paths and direct PM elections**. Enten walks through the still-unfolding count and the paths out of it: a Netanyahu majority, a minority government kept alive by Arab parties abstaining, or another election. He floats returning to direct election of the prime minister, a system Israel used briefly in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Speculation, not new reporting.
- [The Bulwark Daily](https://boilpoints.com/u/thebulwarkdaily), 2026-10-28, 32:03 to 38:47: **Reports the full Tuesday count from Jerusalem**. Guardian correspondent reports from Jerusalem that all Tuesday ballots are counted: Netanyahu's bloc about 53, Eisenkot's about 48, Arab-Israeli parties possibly 19, with absentee ballots still outstanding. Explains the Arab surge as fear of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich and lays out the coalition paths. New angle: With all Tuesday ballots counted, Netanyahu's bloc sits at about 53 and Eisenkot's about 48, Arab parties possibly 19.
- [Morning Wire](https://boilpoints.com/u/morningwire), 2026-10-28, 1:08 to 2:33: **Adds Netanyahu's election theft accusation**. Recaps the post-election stalemate and adds a new development: Netanyahu accuses the Arab parties of stealing seats and says Likud will hand evidence of election theft to authorities, listing envelopes of cash, double voting and prohibited mobilization software. New angle: Netanyahu accused Arab parties of stealing seats and said Likud would give authorities evidence of election theft.
- [FT News Briefing](https://boilpoints.com/u/ftnewsbriefing), 2026-10-29, 5:34 to 9:59: **Walks through the coalition arithmetic**. Walks through the seat count and the coalition arithmetic: Netanyahu's bloc at 53, the opposition at 48, Arab parties at up to 19, and the president's role in picking a formateur. England's read is that a return to elections is the likeliest outcome. New angle: Netanyahu's coalition holds 53 Knesset seats and the Jewish Opposition Alliance 48, with Arab parties at up to 19.
- [Start Here](https://boilpoints.com/u/starthere), 2026-10-29, 17:06 to 23:19: **Walks through the election night reversal**. Walks through the election night reversal - exit polls showing the opposition ahead, then Netanyahu's coalition pulling ahead by five or six seats - and explains the parliamentary mechanics of what comes next. A clear explainer, but it stays inside the counts already on the record.
- [Up First](https://boilpoints.com/u/upfirst), 2026-10-29, 9:42 to 13:17: **Recaps the deadlock and floats the Iran option**. Recaps the deadlock with more than 90 percent counted, then moves to the Iran option: an expert's read that Netanyahu has an incentive to go to war to ease a unity deal, and reporting that a U.S.-Israeli strike could come as early as next week.
- [Global News Podcast](https://boilpoints.com/u/globalnewspodcast), 2026-10-29, 5:52 to 11:03: **Adds an Arab party's on-the-record terms**. Moves the count to 90 percent and adds the first on-the-record terms from an Arab party: Balad's Maha Saba says negotiations would be with Eisenkot's bloc only, and conditional. Landale walks through the arithmetic and the obstacles to any coalition with Arab parties. New angle: Balad's Maha Saba says Arab parties would negotiate only with Eisenkot's bloc, and only on conditions.
- [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-29, 7:17 to 13:28: **Details Netanyahu's election theft claims**. Reads the translated Netanyahu tweet and adds its specifics: hundreds of testimonies and evidence of election theft at Arab polling stations sent to police, Shin Bet and the elections committee, alleging cash envelopes, double identities and threats. Frames it against Likud's own Qatar bribery case and the Jewish-majority veto on an Arab-backed coalition. New angle: Netanyahu says Likud is sending hundreds of testimonies on Arab polling stations to police, Shin Bet and the elections committee.
- [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-29, 13:28 to 18:01: **Reads a report on Trump's coalition demands**. Plays Mark Levin's get-out-the-vote clip and Feiglin's 'International Supreme Court' interview, then reads a Jerusalem Post report that U.S. sources say Trump wants Ben-Gvir and Smotrich out of Israel's government - a new claim about the post-election coalition fight. New angle: U.S. sources told the Jerusalem Post that Trump wants Ben-Gvir and Smotrich out of Israel's government.
- [The Joe Rogan Experience](https://boilpoints.com/u/thejoeroganexperience), 2026-10-29, 1:00:30 to 1:03:21: **Reads election coverage on the final week**. Reads a paragraph of election coverage aloud between jokes about staying offline: no majority for Netanyahu or Eisenkot, weeks of coalition talks, and a profile casting Eisenkot as a security hawk tied to the Dahiya doctrine. The turnout figure is flagged as an unverified tweet. New angle: Neither Netanyahu nor Eisenkot was projected to win a parliamentary majority, per the coverage read aloud.
- [The Jimmy Dore Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/thejimmydoreshow), 2026-10-30, 0:30 to 5:08: **Walks through projected seats and coalition math**. Walks through the projected seat counts and the coalition math: 53 for Netanyahu's bloc, 48 for Eisenkot's, a record 19 for Arab parties, and 61 needed. Leans on an Israeli journalist's read that Netanyahu keeps caretaker powers and a path to power. New angle: Arab Israeli parties were projected at an unprecedented 19 seats, leaving Eisenkot little path without them.
- [The Jimmy Dore Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/thejimmydoreshow), 2026-10-30, 5:17 to 7:25: **Explains the vote through culture-war tribalism**. Explains the vote through culture-war tribalism: Netanyahu's 'poison machine' demonized Eisenkot, and settlers and ultra-Orthodox turned out against the left rather than for Netanyahu. Analysis and comparison to Trump, not new reporting.