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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 18, 2019

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Montage of prominent Israeli politicians, ahead of September 17 elections. (Flash90)

Elections, the day after

Where do we go from here? All the options for a ruling coalition

By Michael Bachner

Unity government? Liberman plus the religious right? Gantz getting Arab support? With inconclusive results, someone will have to compromise to avoid 3rd elections in a year

AnalysisEarly electoral math shows shaky unity bid sole path to break deadlock

By Haviv Rettig Gur

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

Live updates (Closed)

ELECTIONS, DAY AFTER: PA says ready for dialogue with any future Israeli leader

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

In Oslo, Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki says he’ll talk with ‘whoever will be able to form a government’

8:59 pm

Weapons in Saudi oil industry attack similar to Iranian ones, analysts say
8:58 pm

Woman sues Jeffrey Epstein estate, saying she was abused at age 14
8:44 pm

Trump says he'd give Iranian leaders visas to attend UN

Israel Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman and his wife cast their ballot at a voting station in the settlement of Nokdim, during the Knesset elections on September 17, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Liberman adamant ‘unity government’ is only option, sets out secular demands

Yisrael Beytenu head wants civil marriage, public transport & shops on Shabbat, core curriculum in Haredi schools; says no chance of 3rd election; dismisses coalition with Arabs

Yamina party chairwoman Ayelet Shaked speaks at the Yamina party headquarters on election night in Ramat Gan, September 17, 2019. (Flash90)

Netanyahu allies said set to back him for PM, if he vows not to exclude them

United Torah Judaism head Yaakov Litzman at the party headquarters in Petah Tikva, on elections night, September 18, 2019. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

With PM’s seat wobbling, both ultra-Orthodox leaders soften toward rivals

Analysis

Muddy results clearly show Israelis unfazed by prospect of life after Netanyahu

PM still has a multitude of options, but none of them are really much good. Electorate didn’t overwhelmingly endorse Gantz, but neither did it heed longtime PM’s cry of desperation

This combination picture created on September 18, 2019 shows, Benny Gantz (R), leader of the Blue and White political alliance, waving to supporters in Tel Aviv early on September 18, 2019, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing supporters at his Likud party's electoral campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv early on September 18, 2019. (Emmanuel Dunand and Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu casts his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem on September 17, 2019. (Heidi Levine/AFP)

Israel media reviewBye-bye Bibi, hello unity or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯: 7 things to kinda know for September 18

By Joshua Davidovich

AnalysisIf exit polls are right, Netanyahu is in trouble. But they’ve been wrong before

By David Horovitz

Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz (second left) with colleagues (from right) Yair Lapid, Moshe Ya'alon and Gabi Ashkenazi at party headquarters on elections night in Tel Aviv, early September 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

With 90% of vote officially counted, Blue and White edging out Likud 32-31

Left-wing bloc leads the right with 56 seats to 55; Joint List expected to secure 13; Yisrael Beytenu on course to decide the makeup of next government

A wheelchair-bound man accompanied by his dog and parrot casts his ballot during elections for the Knesset, at a polling station in Tel Aviv, on September 17, 2019. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Over 69% vote in rerun poll, more than April election

Photo composition (L to R): Blue and White chief Benny Gantz, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Yonatan Sindel, Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu far from 61 seats, Liberman poised to be kingmaker – exit polls

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Joint List candidates celebrating the results of Channel 13's exit poll which initially projected the party would win 13 seats in the Knesset. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

In Nazareth, Joint List jubilant over strong showing, high Arab turnout

Leaders of alliance of Arab parties predict end of Netanyahu’s term as premier, say Likud leader helped spur vote by denouncing Arab community

Likud MK admits targeting Arabs with camera bill wasn’t a good idea

Likud tells media it installed cameras outside Arab polling stations

Joint List may recommend Gantz for prime minister, says top Arab MK

By Stuart Winer

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters at his Likud party's electoral campaign headquarters early on September 18, 2019.(MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Weakened Netanyahu vows to block coalition backed by ‘anti-Zionist Arab parties’

By Raoul Wootliff

Likud MKs say they stand by PM, claim to be unfazed by poor showing and lack of clear path to a coalition government after exit polls, urge caution until final results are in

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu votes at a polling station in Jerusalem on September 17, 2019. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)

Likud looks to allies for support, vows to stick by Netanyahu after exit results

By Raoul Wootliff and Alexander Fulbright

President Reuven Rivlin casts his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem, during the Knesset Elections, on September 17, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Election 2019On an election night of drama and confusion, we don’t know who next PM will be

Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz at party headquarters on elections night in Tel Aviv, early on September 18, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz, in morning-after comments, wishes Israel a ‘good unity government’

Blue and White chairman says he hopes politics will ‘calm down a little bit’ after vote, as preliminary results show his party deadlocked with Netanyahu’s weakened Likud

Cautiously optimistic after early returns, Gantz promises unity, talks to allies

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinian PM: Difference between Gantz and Netanyahu ‘like Pepsi and Coke’

By Raphael Ahren

Eyeing coalition with post-Netanyahu Likud, Blue and White says longtime PM lost

By Raphael Ahren, Judah Ari Gross and Michael Bachner

Otzma Yehudit supporters watch the exit poll results at the campaign headquarters in Jerusalem on September 17, 2019. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

Broken by exit polls, extremist Otzma Yehudit bitterly casts blame everywhere

With all TV surveys determining party of Kahanist disciples hasn’t crossed electoral threshold, Itamar Ben Gvir blasts PM and Yamina for having campaigned against his slate

Far-right minister slams ‘peacock’ extremist party leader for election fail

Shaked’s Yamina faction dissolves an hour after polls close

Nobel winner says extremist party sent fake messages touting his support

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to commuters in front of the public bathrooms at the Jerusalem Central Bus Station, September 17, 2019. (Screen capture: Facebook Live)

Live from Jerusalem bus station bathrooms: Netanyahu’s election day on Facebook

By Raoul Wootliff

PM takes to social media in increasingly frantic display imploring Israelis to vote for him or face the horrors of a ‘left-wing Arab government’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to commuters in front of the public bathrooms at the Jerusalem Central Bus Station, September 17, 2019. (Screen capture: Facebook Live)

On election day, lots of ‘gevalt,’ but little physical violence

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implores Israeli voters to back his Likud party in a Facebook video on September 17, 2019. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Politicians issue dire warnings in last-ditch bid to spur voters to the polls

Shidduch fat-shaming

Shame on a society that turns women into hollow shells of who they are, in their attempts to meet external standards, instead of becoming their best selves

Why might a blind person need to illuminate the area that he or she cannot see? To help those around provide the necessary assistance (Ki Tavo)

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Not everyone wants her face plastered on a billboard

Where were you when Ayelet Shaked’s Orthodox political partners erased her face from her own campaign posters?

The fallacy of a national unity government

A national unity government without either the Arab or the Haredi parties is no national unity at all

President of the International Judo Federation Marius Vizer at the opening ceremony of the Judo World Championships in Budapest, Hungary on August 28, 2017. (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP)

Iran suspended from world judo federation over Israel boycott policy

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After Iranian athlete was coerced into throwing matches to avoid facing Israeli, and then defected, Islamic Republic banned from all judo competitions and activities

In this image made from a video broadcast on the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya satellite news channel on September 14, 2019, a man walks through a parking lot as the smoke from a fire at the Abqaiq oil processing facility can be seen behind him in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. (Al-Arabiya via AP)

Saudi Arabia to unveil ‘evidence’ linking Iran to attacks, as US weighs response

By Anuj Chopra and Sebastian Smith

In this July 21, 2019 file photo, a speedboat of Iran's Revolutionary Guard moves around a British-flagged oil tanker, the Stena Impero, which was seized by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. (Hasan Shirvani/Mizan News Agency via AP, File)

Iran warns US of response to any action over attack on Saudi Arabia

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

More Headlines

Tamar Ariel during the December 27, 2012 IAF Flight School graduation ceremony, (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Airwoman killed in 2014 Nepal blizzard recognized as IDF casualty

By Judah Ari Gross

A security guard shoots dead a Palestinian woman after she pulled out a knife at the Qalandiya checkpoint in the central West Bank on September 18, 2019. (Screen capture)

Police: Palestinian woman tries to stab guards at checkpoint, is shot dead

By Judah Ari Gross

State attorney Uri Korb, right, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, February 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu wants Olmert prosecutor Korb to defend him in hearing

Cheryl Juaire, center, of Marlborough, Massachussetts, leads protesters near the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University, April 12, 2019, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Sackler money, tied to opioid crisis, complicates donation policies for museums

By Hillel Italie

This Aug. 9, 2017 photo shows the Snapchat app. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Snapchat post by Denver-area students refers to killing Jews

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)

Homeless man who burned down US synagogue spat on blaze, trying to put it out

US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at the Santa Ana Star Center, in Rio Rancho,New Mexico, September 16, 2019. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Trump strains to balance diplomacy, military threat to Iran

By Robert Burns

Lebanese Army soldiers stand guard outside a military court where an arrest warrant was issued for Lebanese-American Amer Fakhoury, who confessed he'd worked for Israel during its military presence in Lebanon for nearly two decades, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Arrest warrant issued for Lebanese-American who worked for Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Linoy Ashram, of Israel, in action during the women's individual multiple competition in rhythmic gymnastics at the Second European Games in Minsk, Belarus, June 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Rhythmic gymnast Linoy Ashram wins silver, bronze medals at World Championships

An illustrative image of a quantum computing concept. (metamorworks; iStock by Getty Images)

Tel Aviv University to set up center for quantum research

By Shoshanna Solomon

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