Current sectionIsrael NewsIsrael Elections 2026Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribePrime Minister Benjamin Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in 2025. Credit: Ronen Zvulun /AFP/PoolThe first official election campaign video from Netanyahu's Likud party treads familiar territory: incitement and division. But it also signals how the prime minister, behind in the polls, intends to distract voters from his plentiful failuresEsther Solomon08:46 PM • May 25 2026 IDTWhat Israel's future might look like is a tale of three viral videos. Loading...Click the alert icon to follow topics:LikudIsraeli politicsGadi EisenkotBenjamin NetanyahuDonald TrumpItamar Ben-GvirIsrael Elections 2026CommentsLoading...In the NewsIn the News: Israel-Iran Live UpdatesIran DealGazaTrumpWhite House ShootingSettler ViolenceJewish Soccer PlayersHaQuizHaaretz PodcastDeflect, Attack, Play the Victim: Inside Netanyahu's Campaign to Stay in PowerAs Arab Parties Unite, Palestinians in Israel Demand Some AnswersBrooklyn Co-op Vote to Boycott Israeli Products Spills Into Midterm PoliticsBank of Israel Cuts Interest Rates as Iran Tensions Ease and Inflation SlowsIsrael's Top Court: Recognizing Ex-soldiers Who Die by Suicide Requires New LawRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIBen-Gvir Posts Video of Police Dragging Detained Gaza Flotilla ActivistsFreed Gaza Flotilla Activists Report Sexual Abuse, Rape in Israeli CustodyThe Most Consequential Republican Primary for Israel Is Happening in Kentucky'It Was Okay to Be Crazy': IDF Soldiers Discuss Moral Decay in LebanonUnmoved by Trump's Ticking Clock, Iran Forms a New Reality in the Persian Gulf`On Israel, Gaza and Palestine, Bigmouth Tucker Carlson Spoke Nothing but Truth