Israel votes tomorrow—the nation’s first national elections since the Hamas massacre three years ago this month. Before, during and after that national crisis and its aftermath, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led the nation. From 1996–1999, 2009–2021 and 2022–2026, the Likud Party and “Bibi” have been entrusted with Israel’s safety and survival. Now, at 77 years old, he is running for an unprecedented seventh term.

• Repeated polling suggests neither Likud nor its leading opposition challenger, the Yashar party, will gain enough seats to form a majority government or even to lead a coalition of aligned parties.

Netanyahu and Likud seem desperate.

• Likud prompted the Central Elections Committee to ban all Arab-interest parties from running, because they are anti-Zionist, on September 23. This has been true for years, so making this move a month before a tough election reads like a campaign strategy. Israel’s Supreme Court annulled the decision on October 2.
• The prime minister has made posts on social media suggesting he is the only leader who can prevent nuclear destruction for Israel. Posts like an October 25 AI-generated photo of Tel Aviv under a mushroom cloud if he loses are widely seen as scaremongering.

Netanyahu has craved help from President Donald Trump. The two are wartime allies, yet for months, Trump withheld his endorsement. On October 18, he finally posted his support on social media, calling Bibi “a great warrior prime minister, and an even greater partner for peace in combating the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Trump said “anyone other than Bibi” would be “the wrong leader for Israel” and he is “the kind of partner that the United States of America is demanding of Israel.”

• What the president’s endorsement lacked in promptitude it made up for in fulsomeness, but was it still too little, too late?
• The next day, Netanyahu posted a video of a phone call with Trump, thanking him for his endorsement and saying that, together, they will finish the Iran war in victory. Netanyahu’s campaign has repeatedly pointed back to this endorsement, and President Trump reposted it yesterday.

Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has for years pointed to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s leadership as a singular force keeping Israel safe from its many enemies. Netanyahu’s critics may have valid reasons to be fatigued by him, but Netanyahu has provided Israeli politics with stability for years.

However, as Israelis vote tomorrow, this stability appears to be in jeopardy. Bible prophecy shows that political instability heralds dark times for Israel.