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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont Senior international correspondent

Unpolished, anti-Bibi, but evasive on peace: who is the Israeli opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot?

People cross a bridge beneath an election campaign billboard featuring Gadi Eisenkot.
Eisenkot is leader of the Yashar (‘Straight’) party. Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP

He has been called the man who is everything the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is not.

Gadi Eisenkot, a former general and the main opposition candidate in Israel’s elections this month, is unpolished where Netanyahu is slick.

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