Israel Decide: Results Show Eisenkot ahead of Netanyahu

Gadi Eisenkot waves during a Yashar party event in Tel Aviv on October 25, 2026 [Ronen Zvulun/Reuters] Israelites have just exited polling units, meaning the elections are over. Results are rolling as election officials try to collect results. No concrete result is already out but the few results from fields tend to show Eisenkot ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu.
The leader of Yashar is a former general who served as Israeli military chief from 2015 to 2019.
He is credited with publicly outlining the Dahiyeh Doctrine in 2008, involving “disproportionate force” and large-scale destruction of civilian infrastructure against groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas.
The 66-year-old entered politics in 2022 with former Defence Minister Benny Gantz’s National Unity alliance and later joined the war cabinet assembled by Netanyahu after the October 7 attacks. His son Gal, 25, and a nephew were killed in December 2023, and another nephew in November 2024, while participating in the genocide in Gaza, losses commentators say have helped forge a connection with an electorate that has come to see itself as scarred by war.
In June 2024, he quit the war cabinet alongside Gantz, accusing Netanyahu of lacking a strategy to end the war. A year later, Eisenkot founded Yashar, advocating for professional government, military service for all – including ultra-Orthodox Jews – and a state commission of inquiry into the failings before October 7.
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