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Illustration: Former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz juggles the heads of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,Labor leader Avi Gabbay and Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid.
 
Anshel Pfeffer  
Anshel Pfeffer
 
 
 
​Silence has been kind to Netanyahu's most formidable challenger. But it's ending tonight with Gantz's long-awaited campaign speech. From his religious education to a military career that earned him the nickname "Teflon general," here's what you need to know about the former army chief coming to end the Bibi era
 
 
 
 
Benny Gantz outside his home in Rosh Ha'ayin during a protest by members of Israel's Druze community, January 14, 2019.

The general coming to end the Netanyahu era

Anshel Pfeffer | 29.01.2019
 
 
 
Benny Gantz.

Benny Gantz to formally declare his candidacy and reveal party platform

Chaim Levinson | 29.01.2019
 
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Benny Gantz attends a handover ceremony for the incoming Israeli Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, at the Defense ministry in Tel Aviv, January 15, 2019.

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Benny Gantz.

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File photo: Israeli military chief Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz attends a news conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 28, 2014.

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Benny Gantz at a handover ceremony for incoming Israeli Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, January 15, 2019.

Cast your ballot for Benny Gantz

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Maybe Benny Gantz, contending in the Israeli elections, should consider this slogan

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Palestinians look the damage of a destroyed house where five members of the Ghannam family were killed in an Israeli missile strike early morning in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, July 11, 2014.

Fact-check: Did Netanyahu challenger Benny Gantz really kill 1,364 'terrorists' in Gaza?

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Gantz, Lapid and Gabbay.

Can the center-left cheat fate and snatch middle class voters from Netanyahu's hands?

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a news conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil December 30, 2018.

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Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay at a convention in Tel Aviv, January 23, 2018

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