War-weary northern Israelis rethink loyalty to Netanyahu before election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Israel's "Law of Return" allows any Jew anywhere in the world to immigrate and automatically receive citizenship.
51% : "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.
47% : He was born in Lebanon, the son of a fighter with the South Lebanon Army, a militia that fought alongside Israel in the 1980s and that had many fighters granted Israeli citizenship. - 'Feel protected' - The war could have shifted longstanding political loyalties in towns like Nahariya, a sleepy resort of about 70,000 people.
39% : Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, began firing into Israel in October 2023 in support of Hamas following the deadliest-ever attack on the country.
37% : 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.
36% : "The left in Israel has done a lot of harm, it wanted to give up territories," he said.
34% : Israel has in turn seized what it calls a "security zone" in Lebanon, where authorities say Israeli attacks have killed more than 4,300 people.
33% : Hezbollah has repeatedly dragged Lebanon into conflicts with Israel, most recently in March with rocket fire at Israel in support of Iran.

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