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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 17, 2019

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Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speak on election night in Tel Aviv at separate party events, September 18, 2019. (Miram Alster, Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

ELECTION DAY AS IT HAPPENED: PM, Gantz deadlocked; Arabs up; Liberman kingmaker

By ToI Staff and Marissa Newman

Turnout slightly up on April’s vote; parties campaign feverishly for last minute votes, Blue and White cautiously celebrates win but exit polls shows no easy path to coalition

3:40 am

This liveblog is closing, but live updates continue
2:54 am

Channel 12: Unofficial tally of 85% of votes shows Knesset deadlocked
2:22 am

With quarter of votes counted, Likud has slight lead over Blue and White

Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz arrives to cast his ballot at a voting station in Rosh HaAyin, September 17, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Election Day 2019, Part 2

Casting ballots, party leaders angle for support as Israel votes

By Raoul Wootliff

PM insists election will be close, quoting Trump; Gantz urges voters to reject ‘extremism’

Rivlin urges public to vote in rerun, promises they won’t have to do it again

By Stuart Winer

Election Day 2019, Part 2Netanyahu, Gantz, or 28 other parties? Israel goes to the polls, again

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel media reviewNetanyahu’s day of reckoning: 9 things to know for September 17

By Tamar Pileggi

Arab Israeli voters at a polling station in Sakhnin on September 17, 2019. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

In Arab town of Sakhnin, dismal turnout, not cameras, seen as election threat

A dozen voters say PM’s failed bid to place cameras in polling booths didn’t deter them, but worry not enough others showing up to cast ballots

Activists set up stands for various political parties outside a polling station in Modiin, September 17, 2019. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Even in civic-minded Modiin, many vote for sleeping in on election day

In the last election, the central Israeli town saw a record 78% turnout. This time fewer seemed to be making the effort to vote as polls opened

Early figures show small bump in turnout despite predictions of voter apathy

Police temporarily close several polling stations over suspected voter fraud

Fearing trouble as Israel votes, record 20,000 cops deploying at poll stations

Blue and White activists canvas the Tel Aviv boardwalk, September 17, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Tel Aviv beachgoers hope their ‘bubble’ big enough to burst Bibi’s chances

A Labor Party activist outside a polling station in Sderot, September 17, 2019 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

In Sderot, where PM always fares well, rocket-battered residents aren’t shifting

By Simona Weinglass

Says one taxi driver as he goes to cast a ballot: ‘I have voted Likud my whole life. And so did my parents. It would feel like a betrayal to vote for anyone else’

In this May 14, 1948 photo, cabinet ministers of the new State of Israel are seen at a ceremony at the Tel Aviv Art Museum marking the creation of the new state, during prime minister David Ben-Gurion's speech declaring independence. (AP Photo)

Op-ed

We never promised you democracy

This election may be the last chance to halt Israel’s slide toward autocracy. That’s how high the stakes are

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

A prayer for the Israeli elections

A message against hatred that we would do well to take with us to the polling stations tomorrow, and carry with us into the year to come

David Seidenberg

A week of reckoning: Israel’s elections and the climate strike

As resources dry up due to rising temperatures conflict will inevitably grow — now is the time to plan and wean off of Big Oil

Blue and White head Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Noam Revkin Fenton, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed: Elections 2019

Haviv Rettig Gur

Which scheming party, duping you with cutting-edge tech, are you voting for?

Desperate for victory, our politicians posture, dissemble and adopt cutthroat new techniques to win our support. Damage control, as Likud’s campaign chief has noted, can come later

AnalysisIsrael’s election campaign has been a religious war of words

By Sam Sokol and Ben Sales

Democracy or actionNetanyahu warns voters of dangers of sex on election day

Netanyahu and Gantz pray at Western Wall as bitter campaign comes to a close

In this photo taken on July 18, 2019, US Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks on stage during a town hall meeting at Sabathani Community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Kerem Yucel / AFP)

Ilhan Omar calls on Israelis to vote Netanyahu out of office

Democratic congresswoman says she hopes voters in Israel ‘make a different decision,’ castigates PM for West Bank annexation pledges

Trump predicts Israeli election ‘going to be close’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu reportedly rebuffed after seeking meet with Qatari foreign minister

‘Expel or kill’ graffitied in Palestinian town in apparent hate crime

Former TV broadcaster and Blue and White Party environmental campaigner and animal rights activist Miki Haimovich pictured at a dog shelter appealing to viewers to give Shimi and other abandoned dogs a home. (YouTube screenshot)

Interview

Blue and White MK, an ex-TV anchor, wants to turn Israel green

Determined not to stand idly by in the face of environmental degradation, animal rights campaigner Miki Haimovich eyes Environmental Protection Ministry

Gantz names his picks for defense, education ministers if he wins elections

Election czar orders Blue and White’s final event shut down as Gantz speaks

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Hasidic rabbi invokes Hitler in speech railing against secular politicians

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) is seen with security chiefs at the IDF's Tel Aviv headquarters on September 10, 2019, hours after a rocket attack on Ashdod forced him to run for shelter during a campaign rally (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Defense chiefs stymied Netanyahu plan to hit Gaza before elections – report

Security source says PM appeared to be guided by political considerations in pushing for ‘far-reaching’ military operation last week after rocket fire

Gantz assails Netanyahu over reports he sought to go to war before elections

Elections Committee head was told vote could be delayed due to war – report

France, Jordan leaders ‘share concern’ over Netanyahu annexation plan

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative photo: IDF troops operate in the Jenin area on February 3, 2018 in pursuit of Ahmad Jarrar, a suspect in the killing of Rabbi Raziel Shevach. (Israel Defense Forces)

Analysis

IDF troops in Afghanistan? What a US-Israel mutual defense treaty could mean

Netanyahu claims the pact he vows to advance after the election will guarantee Israel’s security ‘for generations.’ But successive Israeli governments have always rejected the idea

This photo released by Popular Mobilization Forces shows shows the aftermath of a drone attack near Qaim border crossing with Syria, in Anbar province, Iraq, August 25, 2019. (Popular Mobilization Forces via AP)

Strikes reported on Iran-backed militia on Syria-Iraq border, 10 said killed

By Judah Ari Gross

Some of the studied tin ingots from the sea off the coast of Israel (approx. 1300-1200 BCE). (Credit: Ehud Galili)

Archaeology

Groundbreaking study: Ancient tin ingots found in Israel were mined in England

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

More Headlines

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with a group of clerics, in Tehran, Iran, July 16, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran supreme leader rules out negotiations with US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump listens to a reporter's question in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, September 16, 2019. (Alex Brandon/AP)

AnalysisTrump backed off on Iran last time — but will he again?

By Sebastian Smith

From top left, clockwise: Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan, a young participant at the 2018 Los Angeles Women’s March, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Women’s March participants in Las Vegas in 2018. (JTA Collage/Farrakhan Photo: Monica Morgan/WireImage/Getty Images; Girl Photo: Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images; Mallory, Sarsour and protestors Photos: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

US activists accused of anti-Semitism leave prominent anti-Trump group

By JTA

This undated booking photo from the St. Louis (Minnesota) County Sheriff’s Office shows Matthew James Amiot, who was arrested, September 13, 2019, in connection to a fire at the Adas Israel Congregation, in Duluth, Minnesota. (St. Louis (Minnesota) County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Suspect charged in fire that destroyed Minnesota synagogue

By AP

A model gesturing a hooked nose on the website if the University of Ghent, Belgium. (University of Ghent via JTA)

Belgian university posts hooked-nose gesture for ‘Jew’ in sign language video

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Demonstrators protesting outside the Spanish government delegation in Barcelona, October 20, 2015. (Albert Llop/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images via JTA)

US pressed European lawmakers to oppose BDS, report shows

Fashion models and their muses at 'New York Fashion Rediscovered,' a new exhibit created by two Israelis in New York City's Time Square, just in time for 2019 Fashion Week (Courtesy ZAZ10TS)

Runway storyNYC fashion giants featured in exhibit curated by two Israelis

By Jessica Steinberg

The cast of Seinfeld. (Wikimedia Commons, Andromedoide)

That's gold, Jerry‘Seinfeld’ will move to Netflix in 2021

By JTA

A memorial for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. (Hane Grace Yagel via JTA)

Pennsylvania governor honors Pittsburgh victims during Auschwitz visit

By JTA

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Ankara on September 16, 2019. (Alexey NIKOLSKY/SPUTNIK/AFP)

At meeting with Rouhani, Putin praises Iran for helping Assad in Syria civil war

By ToI Staff and AP

In this photo from July 31, 2014, then-IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz attends a cabinet meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, Pool, File)

Dutch court considers case against Gantz over 2014 Gaza strike

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Screen capture of Giffnock & Newlands Synagogue, Scotland. (Google maps)

Teen with fake Hitler mustache performs Nazi salute outside Scottish synagogue

By JTA

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