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Netanyahu faces reckoning for October 7 in Israel’s first vote since attack

Times of Israel26 October 2026, 16:37 UTCIsrael

At Kibbutz Be'eri, devastated in Hamas invasion, many feel catastrophe must be probed by top-level commission, which only a government led by a new PM would set up

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