Is Israel ready for its first non-Ashkenazi prime minister?
Is Israel ready for its first non-Ashkenazi prime minister? newspress_en Sat, 11/07/2026 - 11:14 Politics Donald Trump and his MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement were well beaten in the US midterm elections, but the impact of another consequential election just a few days earlier is still to be decided. Israelis went to the polls on 27 October and gave neither big ‘bloc’ of parties a…
Israel may soon be on the verge of its first non-Ashkenazi prime minister, according to recent election results. The Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, might ask former army chief Gadi Eisenkot, who hails from a Moroccan-Jewish family, to form a government if he can secure enough seats in the 120-member Knesset. Eisenkot's party, Yashar, won 21 seats in the recent elections, placing him second only to Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party with 27 seats.
If Eisenkot succeeds in forming a government, he would break the decades-long tradition of Ashkenazi Jewish dominance in Israeli politics.
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