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Sep 26, 2026
Herman PoppleberryHOST
And the response, eventually, was consolidation.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
In 2024, Labor and Merits merged into the Democrats under Yair Golan, first time the Zionist left has run under one banner.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Which is the logical
Hilbert FlumingtopCORRESPONDENT
move.
Hilbert FlumingtopCORRESPONDENT
But it's late, and it's small.
Hilbert FlumingtopCORRESPONDENT
The Democrats poll around 10 or 11 seats now.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Right.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
So the consolidation happened, and it produced a party that's roughly the size of one of the factions that used to be part of a larger labor bloc.
Noa LeviHOST
Police assessed an elevated threat level against him, prompting the Shin Betts Unit 730 to provide him with security until election day.
Noa LeviHOST
A similar threat assessment was made for Democrats Party Chairman Yair Golan.
Noa LeviHOST
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife, and his entourage have landed back in Israel.
Noa LeviHOST
In uplifting news, Jerusalem psychologist Michael Feuerstein is channeling his experiences from over 400 days of combat reserve duty in Lebanon and Gaza into an art exhibition and book titled From the Battlefield to Home.
Noa LeviHOST
with losses for both Haredi parties, while Yehudit Yehudit gained one seat.
Noa LeviHOST
The opposition bloc, meanwhile, is expected to rise to 55 seats, with Yashar losing seats and the Democrats gaining.
Noa LeviHOST
The poll also shows continued public sentiment regarding leadership suitability, with Gadi Isenkot leading Benjamin Netanyahu in head-to-head match-ups.
Noa LeviHOST
This comes amidst analysis suggesting that the anticipated third block of moderate parties, expected to form a broad unity government after October 7th, has failed to materialise as polling data has disproven its emergence.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
So you will have a party like Israel Beiteinu, which is led by Viktor Lieberman, who is in all likelihood to the right of Netanyahu on many issues.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
But he is sitting alongside, in this block at least, with Yair Golan, who is the head of the new, well, it's newly called the Democrats Party.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
It's a merger between the Labor Party, which for many, many years was the main left-wing party in Israel, and Meretz, which was a smaller party to the left of the Labor Party.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
However, At the last several election cycles, the Labor Party has pretty much crashed and burned.
Elena Mazel-DiamantHOST
Right.
Elena Mazel-DiamantHOST
So, for instance, the Democratic Party is headed by Yair Golan.
Elena Mazel-DiamantHOST
Yair Golan recently had to somewhat modify remarks that he had made about Israel killing Palestinian children as a hobby.
Elena Mazel-DiamantHOST
And of course, potentially, the party also sits with Ram.
Moshe Tur-PazGUEST
And that's my main exam, and that's how I treat people, I must say.
Moshe Tur-PazGUEST
Talks, words can kill.
Moshe Tur-PazGUEST
I mean, when Amichai Eliyahu, a minister, said, it's not, you know, absurd to think about an atom bomb thrown on Gaza, and I went to Washington to try to debate our cases to congressmen from both Republican and Democrats, there wasn't one who didn't quote that stupid quote.
Moshe Tur-PazGUEST
So, again, words can kill.
Donniel HartmanHOST
If it came to a deadlock, and Netanyahu could form with his fantasy a 61, 62-seat government, and he turns, let's call this the Benny Gantz dilemma, and he turns to Yossi Klein Halevi, and he says, "Yossi, I could form my coalition.
Donniel HartmanHOST
You know all these other people." He turns to Eisenkot, et cetera, and he says, "Come." Eisenkot, Lieberman, Bennett, he won't say it to the Democrats.
Donniel HartmanHOST
He says, "Come join me, and I will not include in the coalition Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.
Donniel HartmanHOST
Let's create a new center." And he makes you that offer.
Donniel HartmanHOST
That's my line.
Donniel HartmanHOST
And I've been working on myself, and I can't put someone who gets such support from 20, 25% of this country or more if you add the other members of that block, I can't put him in that camp.
Donniel HartmanHOST
He was always strongly within a mainstream whether I agreed with him or not, and I think a government with Eisenkot, Lieberman, Bennett, Likud, and maybe with the Democrats could be something
Yossi Klein HaleviHOST
No, the De- He's never going
Ofer CassifGUEST
No, no, no, no, no, not all of them, but most of them, including at least one party from the opposition, Viktor Lieberman's party.
Ofer CassifGUEST
But I'm not, and also Shas, which is not part of the coalition anymore, but the Democrats voted against.
Ofer CassifGUEST
And unfortunately, they voted for the disqualification of Sami Abushadeh, which is very disappointing.
Ofer CassifGUEST
And I must say, very stupid, because it seems that those who are supposed to be alternative to Netanyahu and his fascist allies, they still don't understand that every time they use the Arab population and the real democratic Jews like myself as a scapegoat, they actually play into the hands of Netanyahu and his allies.
Shanna FuldHOST
against the State of Israel, now it has gone in another direction.
Shanna FuldHOST
Othma Yehudit has filed a petition to disqualify Yair Golan's left-wing Democrats Party as well.
Shanna FuldHOST
This was hours after the Democrats tried to ban Othma Yehudit first.
Shanna FuldHOST
The Democrats petition accuses Otsma members, specifically National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gavir and his new number two, Tali Gatlev, of abusing their government power.
Shanna FuldHOST
Otsma's counter petition points to past comments from Golan that were critical of West Bank settlers and Haredi settlers.
Shanna FuldHOST
Communities, everybody is accusing everybody else of undermining democracy right before this election, which is happening on October 27th.
Mark RegevHOST
But here there's unfortunately not a lot new.
Mark RegevHOST
Often Israelis who are on the very radical left, really outside the consensus for people like these filmmakers, even the left-wing party, the Democrats, the Israeli Democrats, that's too moderate for them.
Mark RegevHOST
This is the hardcore left.
Mark RegevHOST
They don't have an audience in Israel.
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Mark RegevHOST
And think about these two Israeli film directors, yes, who made this movie.
Mark RegevHOST
They're on the far left, the irrelevant far left in Israel.
Mark RegevHOST
As I said, even for them, the Democrats are too right-wing, yes? The Democrats who won't say they believe in a two-state solution.
Mark RegevHOST
These are people, I mean, these are people really on the crazy far left.
Michael DoranHOST
Likud fired back with a push to disqualify Arab parties from the race.
Michael DoranHOST
Ben-Gvir went further demanding – Othma Yehudit being Ben-Gvir's party – Ben-Gvir went further demanding that the Democrats, the party that called for his cancellation, themselves get knocked off the ballot.
Michael DoranHOST
In the West Bank, Gadi, we have settler violence.
Michael DoranHOST
A 23-year-old Palestinian man was beaten in Beit Ola.
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