Who will be the next Prime Minister of Israel after the next election?

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Market context

Israel is due to hold parliamentary elections on 27 October 2026, and the next prime minister will be the first person formally sworn in after that vote. The market’s 39% crowd-implied probability puts the favourite only narrowly ahead of the field rather than anywhere near a majority expectation, which fits Israel’s recent pattern of fragmented coalitions and post-election bargaining. In comparable cycles, the winner on election night has not always been the eventual prime minister: the president’s consultations, coalition maths and party thresholds have repeatedly mattered as much as raw seat totals.

At present, the consensus view appears to be that Benjamin Netanyahu remains the default benchmark, with Likud still likely to finish near the top and right-wing and religious parties still relevant coalition partners. The value question is whether traders are over-weighting his incumbency and under-weighting the likelihood of an alternative bloc-building path, especially if Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid, Gadi Eizenkot or another opposition figure can assemble a broader anti-Netanyahu majority. Britannica’s recent preview notes that Likud may win the most votes, but also highlights Bennett, Eizenkot, Ben-Gvir, Gantz and the Arab bloc as potentially decisive in the coalition arithmetic.

Watch for formal alliance announcements, late candidate lists, and polling shifts around threshold-sensitive parties, as well as any early-election move that could bring the vote forward. Polymarket’s own market commentary points to Bennett’s recent alignment with Lapid as a live factor, while Reuters-style election coverage in Israel has consistently shown that security developments, coalition fragility and seat transfers between blocs can alter the final outcome quickly. The underdog case is therefore not just a single challenger, but any configuration that denies Netanyahu the 61-seat path.

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