For all the talk that October 7 has demolished the old paradigms, Israel's political arena has proven strikingly static. The anti-Netanyahu opposition – Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid – promise to do Netanyahuism better than Netanyahu. New ideas and fresh blood are sorely lacking
For all the talk that October 7 has demolished the old paradigms, Israel's political arena has proven strikingly static. The anti-Netanyahu opposition – Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid – promise to do Netanyahuism better than Netanyahu. New ideas and fresh blood are sorely lacking
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11:28 AM • May 01 2026 IDT
Israeli parliamentary politics is stuck in a seemingly interminable loop. Even the tremendous upheavals of the last several years – the Netanyahu government's judicial overhaul and the movement that rose up to oppose it; the Hamas attacks of October 7 and the subsequent war in Gaza; the ongoing war in Lebanon and two rounds of fighting in Iran – have hardly altered the political terrain.
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