The Palestinian Authority responded to the electoral victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday by threatening to continue diplomatic warfare against Israel. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports: “It is clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form the next government, and for that, we say clearly that we will go...

Although there will be some minor adjustments made in the vote totals as results from army bases and absentee ballots are counted, the makeup of the 20th Knesset has mostly been determined, and it will have greater representation of women and Arabs. The Jerusalem Post reports: For the second time in a...

With nearly 4,000,000 million votes counted—more than 95 percent of votes of the total—the Israeli elections emerged with what appeared to be a stunning victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party. While exit polls universally put Likud in a dead heat with its principal rival, the Zionist Union, the...

In one of the most hotly-contested elections in recent memory, with possibly the highest voter turnout in nearly two decades, Israelis appear to have surprised previous polls by streaming away from smaller parties to strengthen both Likud and the Zionist Union. Yet despite the apparent shift from the last set...

This post is updated to reflect exit poll adjustments by Channels 1 and 10. As the Israeli election concluded today, exit polls showed that the Likud party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is either tied or slightly ahead of the main opposition, the Zionist Union. Polls from Israel’s three major...

With voter participation now at its highest level in more than a decade after slightly underwhelming turnout earlier in the day, Israeli political parties are making their final pitches to be included in the next government. According to the latest numbers at 8:00 PM local time, voter participation was at 65.7%,...