A notable AI-generated clip from Benjamin Netanyahu’s account shows rival Gadi Eisenkot embracing an Arab politician, illustrating how AI content is used to provoke emotion and influence voters, drawing significant backlash.

Earlier in July, Netanyahu posted an AI-generated clip where Eisenkot runs toward a figure resembling his son but embraces Mansour Abbas; the clip surpassed one million views and ties into broader war- and family-related imagery.

Prominent politicians like Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir have shared AI-generated videos that have drawn condemnation and legal scrutiny, including an AI video depicting judicial figures in protest that drew international criticism.

AI-driven voter contact is expanding to automated four-minute calls posing as an employee of a polling institute, with no human operator and without disclosing who commissioned the poll.

Advanced robocalls powered by AI are being used for poll-like outreach, questioning voters while withholding disclosure of the commissioning party.

Israel is in a highly AI-driven election phase, with AI-generated content and robo-calls central to campaigning ahead of the October 27, 2026 vote.

Leading up to the election, parties are increasingly using AI-generated deepfake videos to attack opponents, marking an unprecedented scale of manipulation in Israeli politics.

The article notes controversy over warnings Netanyahu allegedly ignored about a pre-October 7 alert and his reluctance to establish a state inquiry, forming part of the broader political backdrop.

There are alleged bot campaigns linked to other politicians, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, though his office denies the claims.

Scooper, a media monitoring firm, identified a network of inauthentic accounts promoting Netanyahu, with thousands of new accounts daily and a majority of sharers outside Israel showing bot-like behavior.

Evidence of bot networks amplifying content online includes thousands of new followers for Netanyahu on X and non-authentic or bot-like engagement, including international accounts.

The Ze Be AI project tracked over 1,800 AI-generated posts by Netanyahu’s Likud party by mid-October, about a quarter of the party’s social media materials analyzed.