The lesson Winter and Hendel learned from Netanyahu's poison machine | Yohai Ansebacher

Yohai Ansebacher argues in his column that Yoaz Hendel and Ofer Winter, who failed to pass the electoral threshold, learned a lesson: whoever comes with a vision and without a political machine stays out. The writer criticizes Netanyahu's 'poison machine' and a political system that does not allow change.

Yohai Ansebacher argues in his column that Yoaz Hendel and Ofer Winter, who failed to pass the electoral threshold in the 2026 elections, learned a bitter lesson: whoever comes with a vision and without a political machine stays out. The writer criticizes Benjamin Netanyahu's 'poison machine,' which he says sowed fear instead of hope and led to a result where no bloc reached 61 seats. Ansebacher describes a bureaucratic political system that recycles itself and does not allow real change, and states that the State of Israel is stuck in a cycle of hopelessness.