Nearly 60% of votes counted in Israel's election, still no clear majority | LIVE BLOG
Nearly 60% of votes counted: Netanyahu bloc - 56 seats, Eisenkot bloc - 49 seats, Arab parties - 16 seats
Israel’s voter turnout reached 77.7% by the time polls closed at 10 p.m., the highest at that hour since 1999, according to the Central Elections Committee. More than 5.69 million people cast ballots, and results will be published gradually as votes are counted and verified. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already come out and announced that the right-wing bloc has a clear majority; however, so far, just over 40% of ballots have been counted and published by the CEC. READ MORE FROM ELECTION DAY
The latest i24NEWS’s exit poll results, as of 9:00 am:
Likud - 28 | Yashar! - 21 | B'Yachad - 11 | The Democrats - 8 | Joint List - 12 | Shas - 7 | Otzma Yehudit - 7 | United Torah Judaism - 8 | Ra'am - 4 | Religious Zionism - 6 | Yisrael Beiteinu - 8
IDF says it killed three Hamas Nukhba terrorists in Gaza, including one who took part in abducting Israelis from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7
The IDF killed Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed Baraka, a Nukhba terrorist in Hamas’s military wing, in a strike in southern Gaza last week on Thursday, the IDF Spokesperson said.
The IDF said Baraka took part in abducting several Israeli civilians during the October 7 massacre, including the late Alexander Dancyg of Kibbutz Nir Oz, and later helped hold many hostages in the southern Gaza Strip, including Nimrod Cohen.
In a strike in northern Gaza at the end of the week, on Friday, the IDF killed two more Hamas military wing members: Omar Awadallah, a Nukhba platoon commander, and Moataz Mahmoud Mohammed al-Nimr, a Nukhba terrorist.
The IDF said the terrorists had advanced terror plots against troops and Israeli civilians throughout the war and especially recently, and worked to rebuild Hamas’s capabilities in systematic violation of the ceasefire.
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79.9% of IDF service members voted in Knesset elections, up 6.2% from last election
Voter turnout among IDF service members stood at 79.9% after the polls closed in the 26th Knesset elections, an increase of 6.2% compared to the 25th Knesset elections, the IDF Spokesperson said.
Voting within the IDF began last week and continued through Election Day, with over 890 military polling stations operated across bases and units nationwide, about a quarter of them mobile.
The IDF said the stations, deployed throughout the country and in combat zones, were part of an effort to ensure that all service members could exercise their democratic right to vote
‘It looks like a come-from-behind stalemate, or even a win,’ President Trump credits his endorsement for Netanyahu’s election lead
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Netanyahu’s Likud Party leads elections with 27 votes, Eisenkot’s Yashar Party in second with 21 votes; only 42% of ballots counted so far