Oct 26, 2026 · 24 min · 11 segments
After the October 7 attacks, Benjamin Netanyahu’s prime ministership seemed in ruins. His government repeatedly looked on the verge of collapse. Today, Israelis head to the polls for Israel’s first…
Matthew KnottGuest
Samantha Selinger-MorrisHostAnd I wanted to ask you a question about what the temperature is like, you know, how voters are on the ground are actually responding to this in real time.
You've also spoken to Israelis on one of the kibbutzim that was struck on October 7th.
So what are people feeling in terms of who will protect them? You know, are they sort of, you know, vying for one leader rather than the other? Because it's interesting, Netanyahu has long portrayed himself as Mr.
And then you've got Gadi Eisenkot, who, of course, was the head of the military and has that foundation in his own right.
So those settlers, far-right settler activists I was talking to near the Gaza border, they've set up a camp there and they're essentially saying, look, the day after the election, if there's any kind of government we can work with, We're going to campaign to go in and establish settlements in Gaza again.
There have been big protests here in Tel Aviv, which is a very secular place.
Yeah, very, very polarised, different from Australia in terms of many different parties on the extremes and catering to different groups.
People here are very politically engaged, very active, just talking to ordinary people at the supermarket, at cafes.
They're very well versed in all the nuances and intricacies of the way the Israeli system works.
And you sense a lot of anger between different groups, most of them before, about secular, ultra-Orthodox, Jewish Israelis, Arab Israelis, the left, the right, the way people talk.
There's a lot of us and them between the different factions of Israeli society, and we're going to see that on voting day.
And I wanted to ask you a question about what the temperature is like, you know, how voters are on the ground are actually responding to this in real time.
You've also spoken to Israelis on one of the kibbutzim that was struck on October 7th.
So what are people feeling in terms of who will protect them? You know, are they sort of, you know, vying for one leader rather than the other? Because it's interesting, Netanyahu has long portrayed himself as Mr.
And then you've got Gadi Eisenkot, who, of course, was the head of the military and has that foundation in his own right.
So those settlers, far-right settler activists I was talking to near the Gaza border, they've set up a camp there and they're essentially saying, look, the day after the election, if there's any kind of government we can work with, We're going to campaign to go in and establish settlements in Gaza again.
There have been big protests here in Tel Aviv, which is a very secular place.
Yeah, very, very polarised, different from Australia in terms of many different parties on the extremes and catering to different groups.
People here are very politically engaged, very active, just talking to ordinary people at the supermarket, at cafes.
They're very well versed in all the nuances and intricacies of the way the Israeli system works.
And you sense a lot of anger between different groups, most of them before, about secular, ultra-Orthodox, Jewish Israelis, Arab Israelis, the left, the right, the way people talk.
There's a lot of us and them between the different factions of Israeli society, and we're going to see that on voting day.
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