Israel’s legislative elections on 27 October have implications not only for Israelis but also for Palestinians, the wider Middle East, and indeed for people around the world, including in Europe. This Lunch Briefing will provide a first look at the outcome of the elections and address both their domestic and international repercussions.

Cyrus Schayegh is Professor and Head of the International History and Politics Department. He joined the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2017. Before, he was Associate Professor at Princeton University and, in 2005-2008, Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut. His most recent works are the monograph The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (Harvard UP, 2017), the edited volume Globalizing the U.S. Presidency: Postcolonial Views of John F. Kennedy (Bloomsbury, 2020), and Modern Transimperial History: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, January 2027).