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Retired Israeli General Benny Gantz in a security hawk who hopes to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tuesday's elections

Israel's Gantz: Military Man On A Mission To Beat Netanyahu

Gantz, seen in this 2015 picture when he was chief of staff of Israel's army, boasted in video clips of the number of Palestinian militants killed and targets destroyed under his command in the 2014 war with Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers
Israel's elections will decide the political fate of the country's longest serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu, Gantz Spur Supporters On Eve Of Tense Israeli Polls

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main opponent Benny Gantz sought to galvanise supporters Monday on the eve of a tense election with the political fate of the country's longest-serving premier in the balance.The vote on Tuesday will be Israel's second in five months after Netanyahu suffered one of the biggest defeats of his political career when he failed to form a coalition after April polls.
A pre-election pledge by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex a key part of the occupied West Bank has triggered a wave of international anger, particularly from Arab and Muslim countries

Anger at Netanyahu's West Bank annexation pledge

Israeli soldiers sit in the back of a self-propelled artillery gun on the border with Syria in the Israeli-annexed Golan, after US President Donald Trump declared Israeli sovereignty over the area seized by Israel in 1967

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