{
  "id": 18698207,
  "title": "Is Israel ready for its first non-Ashkenazi prime minister?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/07/is-israel-ready-for-its-first-non-ashkenazi-prime-minister",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-07T11:14:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Al Majalla English",
    "slug": "al-majalla-english",
    "url": "https://en.majalla.com/node/334037/politics/israel-ready-its-first-non-ashkenazi-prime-minister"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}