Israel’s former military chief Gadi Eisenkot is now seen as the main political threat to the country’s longest-serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, in elections this year.

Gadi Eisenkot’s new centrist party is surging in polls ahead of Israel’s October parliamentary elections.

By Alexander CornwellTEL AVIV, June 26 (Reuters) - Israel's former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, who lost a son in Gaza and boasts of his "Dahiyeh doctrine" of smashing foes with…