And I don't know if there's any polling that is all trustworthy out of Israel, but what is the sensor of the vulnerability of Netanyahu in the election?

So regular, frequent opinion polls show that it's going to be a very tight race.

At the moment, the prime minister's camp and the opposition camp, led by a former general called Guardia Eisenkopf, are roughly neck and neck.

Some polls put Eisenkopf a few seats ahead.

The challenge for what's called the non-Netanyahu camp or the change government camp is that Many of the parties that would be in that coalition government have articulated they wouldn't join with the Arab parties in Israel.

And so without them, they would struggle to secure a majority, 61 seats in the parliament.

But also, Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his current coalition would struggle as well.

I know there's a range of views, but can you characterize that evolution of public sentiment?

I spoke a little earlier to Alexander Cornwell, who is a Reuters journalist in Tel Aviv.

So Wednesday morning, local time, a fly-to-by flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv in Israel sent out emergency signals.

And what is said to have happened is that the co-pilot attacked the pilot, stabbed him, and then apparently tried to crash the aircraft.

Now, when the pilot was being attacked, he somehow was able to open the cockpit door and passengers and cabin crew then entered the cockpit and were able to restrain the attacker and take back control of the aircraft.

What more have we heard from the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about this event?

The prime minister has said that the attacker was arrested and has been interrogated in Saudi Arabia.

However, the prime minister's office has also told me that the investigation is still ongoing and that the motivation is not clear.

And among the possible scenarios they are looking at is that this was maybe ideologically or politically motivated or even an issue relating to mental health.

I just wonder if this is a bit of the new norm, and this is what we expect over the next couple of months.

Uh, yeah, I mean, it, it very much seems so, the sort of tit-for-tat retaliatory strikes we're seeing between the Americans and the, uh, Iranians.

The Iranians striking, uh, well, they say striking, uh, US, uh, military infrastructure in Kuwait and Bahrain.

We've also, uh, s- had a Israeli soldier killed, uh, in the last 24 hours or so in Lebanon.

This is the first, uh, s- announcement of an Israeli soldier killed there since Lebanon and the Israeli government reached that, uh, somewhat, um, ideal, I guess they're calling it, in the, uh, the, in the talks in Washington for Israel, uh, for Lebanon military to take over some small, uh, areas of, of the south from the Israeli military.

But yes, very much seems, uh, like the new normal.

But let's also think about Gaza since October last year.

All things considered, is there a general thought process that this will eventually be sorted out one way or another? In other words, the strait will open, and life in some way, shape, or form will return to normal.

But does it bring those ships into range of the Iranian missiles?

The military hasn't said exactly where they're going to position their ships, but it's quite a wide area that stretches from the landmass that is Oman to Iran.

So it's a wide area they have to cover.

They said it's a naval blockade.

I don't believe they've explicitly said what role fighter jets or other aircraft will play, but it could.

It well and truly could put the American... ships close to Iranian territory.

But the other thing is that we've known over this past six weeks or so is that the Iranians have the capability to fire long-range aerial attacks.

How credible is it that Trump is apparently starting to reconsider doing strikes again?