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

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Israel’s next prime minister will be decided after the 2026 parliamentary election, with the key market question being who can actually secure a majority, be appointed, and then sworn in. The current 33% crowd view looks tied to the prospect that Benjamin Netanyahu remains the default outcome if the right-wing bloc can again assemble 61 seats, but the market is also pricing the risk that a fragmented result produces weeks of bargaining or even another election before any new premier is sworn in.[1][3][6]

The historical framing is straightforward: Israeli leadership markets usually hinge less on first-order vote share than on coalition arithmetic and the ability to hold together disparate partners. Comparable cases matter because Netanyahu has often benefited from bloc discipline, yet current polling and commentary suggest his path is narrower than in prior cycles, with recent reporting describing his Likud as strong but still short of a workable governing coalition.[3][6] Polling summaries also show the anti-Netanyahu field remains fluid, with Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid’s joint alliance intended to consolidate opposition support and Bennett appearing ahead of Netanyahu in at least one recent preferred-prime-minister survey.[2][4][5]

The main catalyst traders should watch is the sequence of campaign announcements and coalition signals between now and the vote, especially whether Bennett’s bloc holds together, whether Gadi Eisenkot gains further traction as a consensus alternative, and whether the smaller right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties stay aligned with Likud.[1][2][6] A recent Israel Policy Forum update says Bennett and Eisenkot are the leading figures in the anti-Netanyahu bloc, while separate tracking notes that Likud remains the largest party but coalition math is unresolved; that combination makes polling movement, alliance discipline, and any budget or conscription-related parliamentary crisis the most immediate drivers of repricing.[6][3]

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