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- Oct 27, 202675% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Israelis Elect the Next Knesset
- Israel’s legislative election is set for October 27, 2026; all four links date it to that day[1][2][3][4]
- The slates are locked: the last of 38 parties filed candidate lists in the week before September 15, 2026, in a battle between pro- and anti-Netanyahu blocs[4]
- Polymarket’s market on who is sworn in as prime minister afterwards has Gadi Eizenkot at 52% ($2,176,224 volume), Benjamin Netanyahu at 30% ($4,211,540), Naftali Bennett at 10% and Avigdor Lieberman at 5%, across 19 outcomes and $38,331,265 of total volume since it opened Nov 14, 2025[1]
- That market resolves only on a formal swearing-in: ‘Any interim or caretaker Prime Minister will not count’, and it resolves to ‘Other’ if nobody is sworn in by December 31, 2027 — though the page elsewhere gives an end date of Dec 31, 2026 and says it is scheduled to resolve on or around Dec 30, 2026[1]
- Kalshi’s ladder on when the Knesset approves a new government prices 35% before Dec 23, 2026, 77% before Jan 20, 2027 and 89% before Feb 3, 2027, the chance shown on each rung rather than the cents quoted beside it[2]
- Kalshi’s quoted prices do not square with its own percentages: ‘Before Dec 23, 2026’ shows 33¢ Yes against 77¢ No, and ‘Before Feb 3, 2027’ 95¢ Yes against 12¢ No, neither pair summing to a dollar[2]
- Kalshi resolves strictly on the Knesset floor vote: the president tasking a candidate with forming a government, a signed coalition agreement, an agreement in principle, the caretaker government continuing, or ministers being sworn in before the vote all fail to qualify, and every market resolves NO if the statutory mandate periods expire, even where that triggers a fresh election[2]
- A separate Polymarket book, ‘Netanyahu out by...?’, prices December 31, 2026 at 51% on $124,386,800 of total volume since July 2025; it resolves Yes if Netanyahu ceases to be prime minister for any period, and an announced resignation or removal resolves it immediately regardless of when it takes effect[3]
- Polling behind the odds is deadlocked: a Channel 13 poll on Sep 17 projected the pro-Netanyahu bloc at 54 seats against 52 for Eizenkot’s opposition, and Kalshi carries a Jerusalem Post headline of Sep 15 that ‘both Israeli blocs fall short of 61’, with an Anadolu piece noting neither side is assured of forming a government 46 days out[1][2]
- Polymarket’s context note puts Likud at roughly 18-22 seats and the wider coalition at 51-54 mandates, raising the prospect of prolonged coalition talks, a unity government or a minority administration backed by Arab parties, with President Herzog signalling readiness to mediate to avoid fresh elections and Netanyahu saying he will stay Likud leader and opposition head if he cannot form a government[3]
- The Times of Israel briefing frames Eizenkot’s lead as a rightward shift rather than a swing left: he is ‘winning voters on the right and leading in the polls by presenting a party that in many ways resembles the Likud of yesteryear’, while Likud tries to brand him a leftist[4]
- A late wrinkle: polls on Sep 19 showed Ofer Winter’s People of Israel party gaining seats and potentially splitting the right-wing vote, lifting him to 2% on Polymarket; separately the Democrat Party petitioned the Central Elections Committee to bar Itamar Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit slate, which the briefing’s correspondent calls expected political theatre from both sides[1][4]
- The links spell the front-runner’s name two ways, ‘Eizenkot’ in Polymarket’s outcome list and ‘Eisenkot’ in its own news items and in the Times of Israel briefing[1][4]
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- [1]75%polymarket.com/event/who-will-be-the-next-prime-minister-of-israel-after-the-next-electionpolymarket.com· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Oct 27, 2026 ✓· 25% of score
Polymarket's[3] rules state "Legislative elections are schedule to be held in Israel on October 27, 2026", a Tuesday, the weekday Israeli elections are always held on.
- [2]70%When will the Knesset approve a new government? - Kalshikalshi.com· Added Sep 20, 2026· 25% of score
Kalshi's government-formation ladder is what dates the aftermath: 28% for a confidence vote before December 23, 2026 and 92% before February 3, 2027, so the market expects weeks of coalition talks.
- [3]70%Netanyahu out by...? - Polymarketpolymarket.com· Added Sep 20, 2026· 25% of score
Polymarket's[1] Netanyahu market is a coin flip at 51% for him leaving office by December 31, 2026, which is the same question the election answers.
- [4]75%How upstart parties could determine the Israeli election - The Times of Israel Daily Briefingpodcasts.apple.com· Published Sep 15, 2026· 25% of score
The Times of Israel's daily briefing of September 15, 2026 is given over to Israel's upcoming election and the smaller parties that could decide it, which matches the open field Polymarket[1][3] prices behind Eizenkot and Netanyahu.
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