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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 9, 2019

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A hidden camera allegedly snuck into a polling station in an Arab town by a Likud observer during parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019. (Courtesy Hadash-Ta'al)

Likud admits deploying cameras at polling stations to monitor ‘problem Arabs’

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu and party lawyer defend dispatching election-day observers to Arab-majority areas, claim measure aimed to prevent widespread voter fraud

AnalysisLikud’s hidden cameras at polling stations are this election’s ‘Arabs in droves’

By Raphael Ahren

An Arab Israeli man prepares to vote in Israel's parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019, at a school-turned-polling station in the northern Israeli town of Taibe. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Likud activists put 1,200 hidden cameras in Arab towns’ polling stations

Live updates (closed)

ELECTION DAY AS IT HAPPENED: From start of voting to Netanyahu’s victory speech

By ToI Staff and Marissa Newman

Over 4 million Israelis voted, with final results showing Blue and White neck and neck with Likud, but PM with clear path to coalition. Here’s how ToI liveblogged it all

3:04 am

This liveblog is closing, but live updates continue
1:55 am

The surprise winners and (probable) losers in the race
1:22 am

In Bat Ayin, 87 settlers vote for Arab nationalists

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz at a polling station in Rosh HaAyin on April 9, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Election day notebook

Casting ballots, Blue and White leaders say victory near. Its voters aren’t sure

By Raoul Wootliff

Crisscrossing the country, Gantz and Lapid are trying to persuade the public that they need just ‘a tiny push’ to win. Not everyone, even among their supporters, is convinced

Voters enter a polling station in Rehovot, April 9, 2019 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

Election day 2019In Israel’s barometer Rehovot, election outcome is anyone’s guess

By Simona Weinglass

Illustrative photo of Israelis relaxing on the beach in the southern city of Eilat. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

With election day a holiday, Israelis throng to national parks and beaches

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls a potential voter in a Facebook Live broadcast on April 9, 2019 (Screen grab via Facebook)

Ousted from TV studios, Netanyahu campaigns on social media, and at the beach

Finding a way around ruling that bars candidates from talking to networks, prime minister posts across multiple online channels; rival Gantz stays relatively quiet

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during an election campaign tour in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, April 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

PM pushes party members to get out the vote: ‘Wake them up everywhere’

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz votes at a polling station in his hometown of Rosh Ha'ayin on April 9, 2019. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

Party leaders flock to polls, pitch for votes; turnout slightly down

By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff

Benny Biton, mayor of Dimona (third from right), poses with fellow Likud activists at the Likud party's campaign headquarters, Dimona, April 8, 2019. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel.)

Israeli elections 2019

In Likud bastion Dimona, ‘traitors’ look to siphon votes away from Netanyahu

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz arrives at a polling station to vote in his hometown of Rosh Ha'ayin on April 9, 2019. (Sraya Diamant/Blue and White)

In first, elections chief bans media interviews with candidates during vote

Hanan Melcer says those caught flouting law prohibiting campaigning on election day may face prosecution; Deri appears to break rule

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz helps a motorcyclist who involved in a crash, April 9, 2019 (Screen grab via Twitter)

Crashing the partyGantz breaks from stumping to help injured motorcyclist

Bride Tsufit Lam casts her ballot at a voting station in the West Bank settlement of Elazar during Knesset elections, on April 9, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israel media reviewDo or die: 7 things to know for April 9

By Alexander Fulbright

Union of Right Wing Parties MK Bezalel Smotrich walks into a polling station in the northern West Bank settlement of Kedumim on April 9, 2019. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

Analysis

In West Bank, settlers say sovereignty pledge isn’t what’s driving them to polls

Voters in three Israeli communities over the Green Line arrive to vote thinking about security and religion, not annexation

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz speaks at a campaign event in Tel Aviv on April 8, 2019. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Gantz says if elected, he expects White House to delay peace plan roll-out

By Tamar Pileggi

National Union MK Bezalel Smotrich, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich says PM promised him education, justice portfolios; Likud denies it

It’s Election Day in Israel, and I’m voting

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer

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WATCH: Election night livestream, with real-time exit polls, analysis and commentary

Join experts from The Times of Israel and the Shalom Hartman Institute in a livestream from Jerusalem debating what Tuesday’s results mean for Israel’s future

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Benny Gantz, right. (Hadas Parush/Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Election Day 2019

Netanyahu, Gantz, or 37 other parties? Israel goes to the polls

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Polling stations open at 7 a.m. across country for 6.3 million eligible voters, as bitter, hard-fought campaign season reaches its climax

President Reuven Rivlin casts his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem on April 9, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Urging Israelis to vote, Rivlin warns that ‘democracy not a given’

Election Day 2019How to cast your ballot: A practical guide for first-time and veteran voters

By Raoul Wootliff

Voting booth in Iksal, an Arab town near Nazareth, on April 9, 2019. (Adam Rasgon/ Times of Israel)

Some Arab voters show up in bid to block the right, amid fear of low turnout

Aide to candidate Ahmad Tibi expresses concern about ‘indifference’ as poll, early numbers indicate fewer Arab Israelis will vote than in 2015

Mtanes Shihadeh, a member of Balad within the Joint List. (Courtesy of Balad)

InterviewBalad politician wants Arab Israelis to take control of their education

Mika Almog denounces Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Facebook video uploaded days before the Israeli election on April 9, 2019. (screen capture: Facebook)

Bibi bluesPeres’s granddaughter goes viral with video denouncing Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during an election campaign visit to the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on April 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

Netanyahu’s media blitz is a ‘super-gevalt’ campaign this time

Imploring right-wing voters not to stay at home, the prime minister accuses the media of plotting against him, even as he uses it to boost his re-election bid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz. (Oded Balilty and Jack Guez/AFP)

Twittersphere glimpseNetanyahu is most-tweeted-about Israeli politician, Gantz is second

By Simona Weinglass

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man near a billboard with pictures of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shas head Aryeh Deri, as part of the Shas election campaign, in Safed, March 10, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Deri: Netanyahu’s last-minute campaign blitz threatens allies on right

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Elections in Israel, as seen through stained glass

On this day, as we shape our state together, I want to remember that my own vision is not the only valid one

Israelis, Russia is trying to interfere in your election too

Russian cyber forces foment discord in our public discourse in order to divide and conquer, just as they have done in Ukraine and Moldova

Magic, migration, and ballots

A historical people was resurrected from the ashes, built a home on the soil of their ancestors, and even hold their own elections — what a fairy tale!

A prayer for Election Day (and the day after)

May we never forget how we can best utilize the blessing of having returned to our homeland.

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at an event in Ganei Tikva, on February 25, 2019. (Flash90)

Countdown to April 9

In waning support for Liberman, a looming crisis of his own making

By Marissa Newman

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Oval Office of the White House, March 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Netanyahu says Trump designated Iran Guards a terror group at his request

By Tamar Pileggi

PM takes credit for dramatic US move to further isolate Tehran, announced a day before Israelis go to the polls

US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, March 14, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

US designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terror organization

By Eric Cortellessa

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at a ceremony commemorating the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology' in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2019. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

After Guard blacklisted, Iran president says US is ‘leader of world terrorism’

More Headlines

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg speaks to the media at the National Action Network's annual convention in New York City, April 4, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/via JTA)

Democratic presidential hopefuls excoriate Netanyahu, say it isn’t anti-Israel

A picture taken by the Beresheet spacecraft of the moon's surface with the Earth in the background on April 5, 2019. (courtesy Beresheet)

With two days to go, Beresheet zeroes in on moon landing

By Melanie Lidman

Illustrative: Palestinian security prisoners in Ofer Prison, north of Jerusalem, August 20, 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

Palestinian security prisoners launch hunger strikes after talks said to fail

Princeton University. (Flickr Commons)

Princeton Jewish community fights over an Israel-themed Shabbat dinner

By JTA

Soldiers from the IDF Commando Brigade simulate fighting the Hezbollah terror group, in northern Israel, in November 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF finds special forces training unsafe, promises action

By Judah Ari Gross

Tunisians hold Syrian and Palestinian flags, as they demonstrate against the Arab League Summit and the United States' recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, on Habib Bourguiba Avenue, in the capital Tunis on March 31, 2019. (Anis Mili/AFP)

Arab countries hold off on UN action over Trump move on Golan

By AFP

Israeli security forces stand guard at the Gilboa/Jalama checkpoint, located north of the West Bank town of Jenin, on October 24, 2015. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Israeli woman nabbed smuggling Palestinian man out of West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

French national Romain Franck (R), then 24, a worker at the French consulate, and Palestinians Moufak al-Ajluni (L) and Mohamed Katout (C) appear in court in the Israeli city of Haifa on March 19, 2018, to face charges of smuggling guns from Gaza. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Israel jails French consulate worker for Gaza gun smuggling

By AFP

Madonna poses for photographers upon arrival at the world premiere of the film 'The Beatles, Eight Days a Week,' in London, September 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Madonna booked to perform at Eurovision in Tel Aviv

Measles cases have been clustered in parts of Rockland County, NY, that include New Square, an all-Hasidic village. (Uriel Heilman)

Judge overturns ban on unvaccinated minors in New York county

By JTA

Dario Hunter, a 35-year-old rabbi who serves on the Youngstown (Ohio) Board of Education, is running for the 2020 Green Party presidential nomination. (YouTube screenshot)

Rabbi and Green Party presidential hopeful visiting ‘Israel-Palestine’

By JTA

Traditional Passover matzah ball soup. (jrwasserman; iStock by Getty Images)

Matzah ball ramen soup, wakame: New foods seen spicing up traditional seder meal

By Shoshanna Solomon

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