Bibi vs. Benny: A Conversation on the Eve of Israel’s Elections

As voters prepare to head for the polls on April 9, the race between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz is shaping up to be one of the most competitive in recent cycles, with weighty implications for the future of relations and the Trump administration’s much-anticipated peace plan. Ehud Yaari is an Israel-based Lafer International Fellow with The Washington Institute, an award-winning Middle East commentator for Israeli television, and former associate editor of Jerusalem Report. Tal Shalev is chief political correspondent for the leading Israeli web portal Walla News. She has also worked as a news editor for the Israeli daily Haaretz and the international television network i24 News. David Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and director of the Project on Arab-Israel Relations at The Washington Institute. In 2013-2014, he served as a senior advisor to the State Department’s special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian nego