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Election campaign billboards featuring Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot, right, and Likud party chairman Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside opposition leaders are displayed along a roadside in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, ahead of Israel’s upcoming general elections, October 17, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)

In 1977, Moshe Dayan was elected to the Knesset on the Labor-led Alignment’s list. Weeks later, the former defense minister abandoned his parliamentary faction to become foreign minister in a government led by Menachem Begin, whose Likud party ended nearly three decades of Labor-led rule.

Dayan’s decision caused an uproar within the Alignment, which expelled him from its ranks. But there was nothing illegal about it.…