Israeli Elections
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid “acted recklessly, did not manage the bloc, did not take care of the Arabs,” says unnamed official; Labor Party head Merav Michaeli blasted as a “colossal failure.”
Benny Gantz’s National Union Party vows not to sit in a government with Benjamin Netanyahu, while Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beytenu warns the right-wing bloc against celebrating early.
“One thing is clear—our way, the way of the Likud—proved itself,” opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu tells cheering supporters.
The Meretz and Balad parties will not enter the next Knesset.
“It’s about time that the soldiers of the IDF and the policemen get support and backing,” says the Otzma Yehudit party leader.
If the numbers don’t change, the Likud leader will have a fairly easy time forming a government.
If the tallies hold, the Likud Party leader should be able to form a right-wing/religious coalition.
Israel’s prime minister and opposition leader both say their respective blocs are running neck and neck.
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears poised to return to power and establish a right-wing government. JNS Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman is joined in studio by ILTV News Anchor Lidar Gravé-Lazi to breakdown Israel’s complex parliamentary system, and what is at stake in Israel’s fifth election in barely three years. Get the inside story, in partnership with Israel365 & ILTV.
Knesset member Aida Touma-Suleiman’s plea contrasted with a social-media post in which she mourned the death of terrorists in Nablus.
A columnist in the P.A.'s official newspaper said one goal of influencing Israeli elections is to foment civil unrest.
The judges said the party’s refusal would harm the broadcaster and its viewers.
