War-weary northern Israelis rethink loyalty to Netanyahu before election

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Residents in northern Israel who previously supported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are reconsidering their votes ahead of the country’s first election since the war. The shift comes amid the conflict along the Lebanon border, where Hezbollah has fired thousands of rockets and drones.

On Israel's border with Lebanon where Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets and drones, previous backers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they are rethinking how they will vote in the first election since the war. "Many I know were right-wing and were Bibi supporters, and today they're not," said plant nursery owner Sigal Malachi, using a nickname for Israel's longest-serving premier.