Waiting for 61: JTA's Israel Election Podcast
Oct 13, 2026 · 13 min · 6 segments
**What does it take to win an election in Israel? And what happens after the votes are counted?** ***Waiting for 61**, JTA’s Israel election podcast, is your guide to the personalities, power…
Ami EdenHost
Ruth EglashHost
Polls show that around 68%, I think it was, of Israelis say that what happened on October 7th is central to how they're voting.
There's still the same personalities who are, were there in 2022, with one or two minor exceptions.
And so you have a camp that presumably wants the change, but the candidate that they're rallying against, Gadi Eizenkot, and, and we'll definitely get back to him in s- later, later episodes, but you basically have a former IDF chief of staff who was very much part of the security establishment, even though he wasn't literally serving when October 7th happened.
They picked Barack Obama, who had been totally against, 'cause they wanted change, real change.
Well, you know, I'm trying to think who, who else who is running who is outside the establishment, and there really isn't anyone.
I mean, everyone in the opposition bloc was, in some way or another, had some kind of role.
I mean, even, uh, the two new, new, new, new, new parties that, uh, have suddenly joined the, the running, led by Ofer Winter and, uh, and Yoaz Hendel, both of them were both.
I mean, Ofer Winter was a general, uh, in the IDF, and, uh, Yoaz Hendel was Netanyahu's, uh, spokesman and then later was a Knesset member himself and a minister.
Polls show that around 68%, I think it was, of Israelis say that what happened on October 7th is central to how they're voting.
There's still the same personalities who are, were there in 2022, with one or two minor exceptions.
And so you have a camp that presumably wants the change, but the candidate that they're rallying against, Gadi Eizenkot, and, and we'll definitely get back to him in s- later, later episodes, but you basically have a former IDF chief of staff who was very much part of the security establishment, even though he wasn't literally serving when October 7th happened.
They picked Barack Obama, who had been totally against, 'cause they wanted change, real change.
Well, you know, I'm trying to think who, who else who is running who is outside the establishment, and there really isn't anyone.
I mean, everyone in the opposition bloc was, in some way or another, had some kind of role.
I mean, even, uh, the two new, new, new, new, new parties that, uh, have suddenly joined the, the running, led by Ofer Winter and, uh, and Yoaz Hendel, both of them were both.
I mean, Ofer Winter was a general, uh, in the IDF, and, uh, Yoaz Hendel was Netanyahu's, uh, spokesman and then later was a Knesset member himself and a minister.
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