A former top general, Gadi Eisenkot has emerged as the opposition’s leading candidate to unseat incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the October 27 vote.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled ahead on Wednesday as votes were counted in Israel’s election, but the loss of a parliamentary majority leaves his path to another term dependent on drawing ri...

Under Netanyahu's watch, settlement construction and violence against Palestinians has soared in the occupied West Bank, where Abbas' Palestinian Authority exercises limited self-rule.