Tension Mounts as Israel Awaits Election Results Amidst Record Voter Turnout and Netanyahu's Uncertain Future

10/28/2026

JERUSALEM (AP) — Anxious Israelis watched as election results took shape on Wednesday after a record turnout vote delivered a rebuke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s far-right government....

10/28/2026

Turnout surged to a 45-year high in the first verdict on the government since the October 7 attacks in 2023

10/28/2026

Netanyahu’s Likud party also sought to extend voting beyond the scheduled 10 pm deadline, but the election committee rejected the request.

10/28/2026

Israelis voted on Tuesday in their highest turnout for decades, with exit polls showing the camp of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that of his rival are neck and neck. Exit polls from the...

10/27/2026

Israel election exit polls show Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud and Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar locked in a fight with neither bloc reaching 61 Knesset seats.

10/27/2026

Voter turnout in Israel's election on Tuesday hit a 53-year high as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, already the longest-serving leader in the country's history, fights to hold on to power as he...

10/27/2026

The election is the first since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel in October 2023, which killed around 1,200 people and saw 251 others taken hostage.

10/27/2026

TEL AVIV — Early returns in Israel’s election Tuesday evening showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc neck and neck with the "Change" coalition headed by the bereaved retired...

10/27/2026

More than 500,000 Israeli settlers live in settlements in the West Bank, which is also home to more than three million Palestinians

10/27/2026

Record turnout is being reported Tuesday in Israel, as voters go to the polls to determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps his job or is replaced by former Israel Defense Forces...

10/27/2026

Israelis surged to the polls on Tuesday at a pace that shattered records, to pass wartime judgment on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in what voters described as the most consequential election...

10/27/2026

Israelis are casting their ballots in the shadow of October 7 and the multi-front regional wars that it sparked, with the trauma from the attack still fresh and questions over accountability and...

10/27/2026

Turnout hit 44.9% by 2pm, the highest at that hour since 1973, as Benjamin Netanyahu urged right-wing voters to turn out.

10/27/2026

Israelis voted in their highest numbers in over two decades in a tense national election to decide whether to stick with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right coalition.(Image credit:...

10/27/2026

Israelis flocked to the polls Tuesday (October 27) in turnout unseen in decades, with a deeply divided electorate delivering a verdict on veteran right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in...

10/27/2026

Some 67,000 internationally based Israelis were estimated to be making the trip, according to a U.S.-based get-out-the-vote program.

10/27/2026

Democracy. The Hamas attack. Wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. Netanyahu’s long tenure. For Israelis returning home to vote, the list of momentous issues is long.

10/26/2026

In Israel, up to 67,000 citizens are expected to arrive from around the world to vote in tomorrow’s elections. Most of them are believed to be opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his...