Will Bibi finally face him? Eisenkot dares Netanyahu to live debate after 27 years of saying no

Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot challenged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a live, nationwide televised debate Sunday, seeking a face-to-face showdown just 23 days before Israel’s October 27 election.

The challenge would revive a political tradition largely absent from Israel for decades. Netanyahu last participated in a televised pre-election debate in April 1999, when he faced Yitzhak Mordechai, and has repeatedly declined or avoided subsequent calls to debate political rivals.

Invoking the third anniversary of the October 7 massacre, Eisenkot said Israelis deserve “full, direct and honest answers” from those seeking to lead the country. Likud responded with a jab rather than accepting the invitation: “Is Gadi coming alone, or with Mansour Abbas, Ahmad Tibi, and Yair Golan?”

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