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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem

What you need to know about the most consequential election in Israel’s history

images of Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot on a big screen in Tel Aviv
A screen in Tel Aviv shows Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his main rival, the opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot, ahead of the Israeli election on Tuesday. Photograph: David Goldman/AP

On Tuesday Israel holds its first election since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks, the deadliest day in the country’s history, which resulted in the deaths of about 1,200 people, the majority of them civilians.

Since then Israel has pursued a war of annihilation in Gaza, launched two inconclusive wars with Iran, and intensified a campaign of state-backed ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank.

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