以色列关键选战中的五个关键时刻 新的政治联盟、一段引发争议的人工智能视频，以及关于安全失职的指控，都出现在周二选举前的竞选过程中。这场选举被广泛视为以色列历史上最重大的选举之一。
5 Key Moments From Israel’s Pivotal Election Campaign New political alliances, a contentious A.I. video and accusations about security failures all featured in the run-up to Tuesday’s election, widely seen as one of the most consequential in Israeli history.
在周二大选之后，总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡和前军方总参谋长加迪·艾森科特已成为组建以色列下一届政府的首要候选人。这是自2023年10月7日哈马斯领导的袭击引发加沙战争以来的首次大选。
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot, a former military chief of staff, have emerged as the top candidates to form the next government in Israel after the general election on Tuesday, the country’s first since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attacks set off the war in Gaza.
但其他候选人也为竞选带来了各自的戏剧性事件，竞选过程中还出现了有关安全失职的爆料，以及一段由人工智能生成的政治广告引发的轩然大波。以下是竞选中的一些关键时刻。
But other candidates have brought their own drama to the campaign, which has also featured revelations about security failures and a furor over an A.I.-generated political ad. Here are some key moments from the campaign.
在选举日尚未确定之前，反对派政治人物纳夫塔利·贝内特和亚伊尔·拉皮德——两人都曾担任总理——就宣布联合参选。这两人此前曾合作过：他们在2021年短暂地将内塔尼亚胡赶下台，组建了一个持续不到两年的政府。
An Alliance Underwhelms Before Election Day had even been set, the opposition politicians Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, both former prime ministers, announced a joint run for office. The two men have worked together before: They briefly unseated Mr. Netanyahu in 2021, forming a government that lasted less than two years.
他们在4月宣布的这一消息被视为对双方都有利，使贝内特成为总理候选人，并确保拉皮德仍将是反内塔尼亚胡阵营中最引人注目的人物之一。
Their announcement in April was seen as mutually beneficial, positioning Mr. Bennett as a candidate for prime minister and ensuring that Mr. Lapid would remain one of the most prominent figures in the anti-Netanyahu bloc.
但他们想让其统一政党“共同党”成为议会最大党的雄心很快落空。民调一致显示，该党将排名第三。
But their ambition to make their unified party, B’Yachad, the largest in the Knesset quickly fizzled. Surveys consistently suggest the party will finish in third place.
一段人工智能视频引发愤怒 以色列各政治派别的政党都发布了人工智能生成的内容来强化其信息传递。这些内容有时引发争议——最引人注目的莫过于7月，内塔尼亚胡发布了一段描绘艾森科特的视频。
An A.I. Video Sparks Anger Parties across Israel’s political spectrum have published A.I.-generated content to reinforce their messaging. The content has sometimes stirred up controversy — no more so than in July, when Mr. Netanyahu posted a video depicting Mr. Eisenkot.
视频中，艾森科特在一片草地上张开双臂奔跑，迎向一名与他已故儿子加尔极为相似的男子。加尔于2023年以色列军方对加沙开战之初丧生。但他跑过那名年轻人，转而拥抱了阿拉伯知名政治家曼苏尔·阿巴斯。内塔尼亚胡一直试图把阿巴斯描绘成恐怖主义的支持者，而阿巴斯可能帮助艾森科特组建执政联盟。
In the video, Mr. Eisenkot is shown running through a meadow, arms open, toward a man with a striking resemblance to his late son Gal, who was killed in 2023 at the start of the Israeli military’s war in Gaza. But he runs past the young man, instead embracing Mansour Abbas, a prominent Arab politician. Mr. Netanyahu has sought to paint Mr. Abbas, who could help Mr. Eisenkot form a governing coalition, as a supporter of terrorism.
内塔尼亚胡所属的利库德党否认视频中的年轻人长得像艾森科特的儿子，也否认有意让人联想到他。但许多以色列人对这则广告的反应是愤怒和厌恶。在艾森科特名单上参选的前议员马坦·卡哈纳表示，“利库德愿意堕入的深渊没有底。”出人意料的合作竞选中最令人意外的时刻之一，是阿巴斯与资深犹太复国主义政治家、前警察指挥官约阿夫·塞加洛维茨宣布联合参选。
Mr. Netanyahu’s party, Likud, denied that the young man in the video looked like Mr. Eisenkot’s son or was meant to evoke him. But many Israelis reacted to the ad with anger and disgust. Matan Kahana, a former lawmaker running on Mr. Eisenkot’s slate, said there was “no bottom to the pit the Likud is willing to sink into.”An Unexpected Partnership One of the campaign’s most surprising moments came when Mr. Abbas and Yoav Segalovitz, a veteran Zionist politician and former police commander, announced a joint run.
他们在阿拉伯联合名单（拉阿姆）的名单上联手，把自己作为犹太人与阿拉伯人合作的典范，尽管他们同时准备迎接来自各自社区的猛烈批评。
Teaming up on the slate of the United Arab List, or Raam, they offered themselves as an example of Jewish-Arab cooperation, even as they braced for intense criticism from both of their communities.
“有人害怕伙伴关系，”阿巴斯说。“有些政党害怕伙伴关系。他们害怕人们会说什么，害怕自己会失去什么。拉阿姆不害怕伙伴关系。拉阿姆在推进它。”被忽视的警告以色列媒体和《纽约时报》报道称，阿联酋总统谢赫穆罕默德·本·扎耶德曾在2023年10月7日之前警告内塔尼亚胡，哈马斯正在考虑对以色列发动大规模袭击。这些报道使内塔尼亚胡面临新的压力。
“There are people who are afraid of partnership,” Mr. Abbas said. “There are parties that are afraid of partnership. They are afraid of what people will say, afraid of what they will lose. Raam is not afraid of partnership. Raam advances it.”A Warning Ignored Mr. Netanyahu came under new pressure over reports in the Israeli media and in The New York Times that Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the president of the United Arab Emirates, had warned him in advance of Oct. 7, 2023, that Hamas was considering a major attack on Israel.
《纽约时报》援引五名以色列前高级官员的话报道，谢赫穆罕默德的警告从未传达到以色列安全机构的领导人。内塔尼亚胡否认了这些报道。
The warning from Sheikh Mohammed never reached the leaders of Israel’s security establishment, The Times reported, citing five former senior Israeli officials. Mr. Netanyahu has denied the reports.
以色列人似乎在9月下旬的一天忘记了大选，当时传出消息称，几名同胞阻止了一名飞行员将一架飞往特拉维夫的阿联酋航空商业客机撞毁。
The FlyDubai Attack Israelis seemed to forget the election for a day in late September, when the news emerged that a handful of their fellow citizens had stopped a pilot from crashing a FlyDubai commercial jet bound for Tel Aviv.
内塔尼亚胡花费数小时赞扬乘客们的机智，将外界的注意力从当时关于他和其他官员未能阻止2023年哈马斯领导的袭击的头条新闻上转移开。
Mr. Netanyahu spent hours celebrating the passengers’ resourcefulness, diverting attention away from headlines at the time about his and other officials’ failure to stop the Hamas-led attack in 2023.
然而，几天内，他的政府就因安全失误的披露而陷入守势，这些失误让这名据称抱有极端伊斯兰主义观点的阿曼籍飞行员最初得以进入驾驶舱。
Within days, however, his government was on the defensive over revelations of security failures that had allowed the FlyDubai pilot, an Omani man said to have embraced extreme Islamist views, into the cockpit in the first place.