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An overview of exit polls from @israel_elects.
All predict a hung Knesset, with no bloc achieving a majority on its own.
However, there’s no consensus on which bloc is ahead.
BICOM 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 retweeted
Summary of Tonight's Exit Polls - Netanyahu doesn't have a majority, but neither does the Opposition Bloc (even with Ra'am)
🗳️ Israel’s elections are in full swing. Yashar leader and the main challenger to the current government, Gadi Eisenkot, cast his vote in Herzliya earlier today.
Eisenkot pledged this morning: “I commit to reconnecting Israel, to winning the wars and ensuring security for this wonderful people. This is the mission of my life.”
📸 Chaim Goldberg/Flash90
🗳️ Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sara cast their votes at a polling station in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu urged voters to vote: “We are the majority - go out and vote!!! If we don't go out to vote now, we'll regret it in the retreats and the dangerous laws that will come.”
📸 Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
🗳️ President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog voted at a polling station in Jerusalem.
Herzog said, “I hope and wish for this to be a genuinely festive day for democracy. This needs to be a festive day for democracy, and we won’t let anyone ruin or sabotage it. Most of all, I call on all the citizens: We are all equal today. This is our day. To go and to influence and to vote.”
📸 Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
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By 12:00 PM, 2.3 million Israelis had already exercised their democratic right to vote - a 31.5% turnout, the highest in 53 years! 🇮🇱
Across more than 12,000 polling stations, Israeli society is showcasing the beauty of true democracy🗳️
👋 Greetings from Jerusalem, where our Chief Executive Richard Pater has just voted in Israel’s general election. 🗳️🇮🇱
🗳️🇮🇱 𝑰𝒔𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒍 𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚
With the results predicted to be closely fought between the blocs, there are a number of factors to look out for.
📸 Rachel Alroey/Flash90
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At exactly 22:00 (20:00 UK time) Israel’s main TV networks release their exit polls, which are usually fairly accurate.
The actual votes are counted during the night, and a clearer picture of the results should emerge by early Wednesday morning, but counting the double ballots will take longer.
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Only once all the votes are counted and verified will President Herzog begin his consultation with the parties and at his discretion, based on the endorsements, assign one of the party leaders the mandate to try and form the next government. The candidate selected by the president initially receives 28 days to build a coalition, with the possibility of an additional 14-day extension.
📸 Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
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Who will win the upcoming elections?
All
🟦Netanyahu Bloc: 30%
🟥Opposition Bloc: 28%
🟪No clear winner: 30%
Netanyahu Bloc Supporters
🟦Netanyahu: 60%
🟥Opposition: 4%
🟪Neither: 25%
Opposition Bloc Supporters
🟥Opposition: 52%
🟦Netanyahu: 6%
🟪Neither: 33%
via Midgam/Chan12, Oct. 22-23
🚨 𝐊𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫
Israel heads to the polls in just four days.
Join BICOM Chief Executive Richard Pater and Fathom Editor Calev Ben Dor for a discussion on Israel’s political future, exploring the key parties and personalities, possible coalition scenarios and the challenges facing the country’s next government.
The webinar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, 28 October at 19.30 UK time. Register your interest and we will email you the joining link in advance: mailchi.mp/bicom.org.uk/uhkr…
