Israel’s election: The main issues in the words of the leading candidates

From judicial reform to conscription and the Palestinians, here’s where candidates stand on the key issues dominating the campaign.For an election often billed as the most consequential in Israel’s history, many issues that outsiders might expect to divide the candidates are, in fact, points of consensus among the frontrunners.None of the leading contenders in Tuesday’s election has questioned the case for unleashing a genocide on Gaza in response to the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023, or the wars that have followed, including the one on Iran. Nor have most candidates for the premiership offered a clear path towards implementing a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict that was envisaged in the 1990s, or towards an equitable settlement with the Palestinians whose territory Israel occupies.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Far from fringe: How Israel’s mainstream parties vote with the far rightlist 2 of 4In Israel election, Palestinian citizens weigh fear against disillusionmentlist 3 of 4‘Generation Right’: Israeli youth show strong support for the rightlist 4 of 4How Benjamin Netanyahu reshaped Israel’s institutionsend of listInstead, the points of di...