Jerusalem Post

In Umm al-Fahm, turnout reached 56.1% by 6 p.m., compared with a final turnout of 51.33% in 2022, an increase of 4.77 percentage points, with several hours of voting still remaining.

Earlier, the Central Elections Committee declared that claims circulating regarding Likud representatives in polling booths across the country illegally tracking voters using an app were false.

The politicians now have to decide what they are prepared to change: their conditions, their partners or their promises.

Classic Israeli songs played in Mizrahi renditions. Journalists filled the venue, surrounded by the party’s blue and white and campaign posters carrying the slogan “Either Right or Palestine.”

Likud, People of Israel, Shas, and Otzma Yehudit have called for extended voting hours, though only CEC Chairman Justice Noam Sohlberg can decide to extend voting hours.

Initial voting results gave his political bloc a 53-50 or 52-50 lead over the Netanyahu bloc according to Channels 11, 12, and 13, even as Netanyahu edged Eisenkot in head-to-head competition.

The projections would give the two parties combined either 18 or 19 seats in the 120-member Knesset, compared with their five seats each in the outgoing parliament.

Israeli election exit polls project between nine and 10 seats for Yair Golan's Democrats, potentially more than doubling the party's parliamentary representation as coalition negotiations loom.

With Likud emerging as the largest party but Gadi Eisenkot's opposition bloc ahead in the initial exit polls, the president faces a difficult decision over who should be given the first opportunity.

Yisrael Beytenu, led by Avigdor Liberman, is projected to win 7 to 8 seats in the next Knesset, exit polls suggested on the evening of October 27 in Israel.

ACRI warned that without immediate intervention, the delays could prevent large numbers of Arab voters from exercising their right to vote.

Earlier on Tuesday, Likud said that it had received 620 reports of unusual incidents and suspected irregularities at polling stations in the Arab sector.

Israel's leading politicians cast their votes for the 26th Knesset at polling stations around the country.

Netanyahu's bloc projected to win some 50 seats, compared to the opposition's 52-53 • Arab parties predicted to reach combined seat total of 17-18, complicating both blocs' efforts to form coalition

People of Israel's projected election to the Knesset expected to play major part in Netanyahu's chances of forming a coalition • Reservist-Economic Party, Haredi Public both fail to cross threshold