After local elections in Israel, what comes next?

In Israel’s first election since the October 7 attacks by Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not on the ballot. But Netanyahu’s party, Likud, did well, even as Israelis are out on the street protesting against him. What does this tell us about Israeli public opinion and the direction of the war ahead? 

In this episode: 

• Willem Marx (@WillemMarx), Al Jazeera Journalist

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Amy Walters and Khaled Soltan with our host Malika Bilal. Chloe K. Li and Zaina Badr fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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