JAKE WALLIS SIMONS: A war hero whose son was killed in Gaza, Gadi Eisenkot as president would be a victory for democracy - but he's as hawkish as Bibi on Iran

Two months to the day after October 7, 2023, a 25-year-old reservist paratrooper called Gal Eisenkot was on a mission to retrieve the bodies of two Israeli hostages from a building in northern Gaza.

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